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Misc. Comments & Information
HAVING
TROUBLE FINDING SOMEONE IN THE INDEX? HELPFUL HINTS:
The Rootsweb Search
Engine
is totally alphabetical!! and Timely!! JOHN ROBERT SLOAN is not the
same
as John R. Sloan, or John Sloan. Start specific and work your way
to vague. Entries are sorted by date of birth.
Want
to a list of
all
Sloans from one location? Use the advanced Search Engine
function!
Ask for Sloan, SCOTT Co. Va. etc. If
you can't find it
under Sloan, check Slone or Sloane. I usually assign an Alias "Sloan"
to
make them equal in my FTM program, NOW, the alias shows up in the
Rootsweb
Search Engine.
TOO MANY JOHN
SLOANS!!!
Yes, also too many William and Marys. I don't have a simple method for
you to find your John in the database. They are sorted by date of
birth.
If you know the full name of the spouse, try locating the wife/husband
first.
ABBREVIATIONS
YOU'VE NEVER HEARD OF!! Yes I have some that I've made up.
dob,dpob - date of birth & date place
of birth.
dod,dpod - date of death & date place
of death.
doDiv - date of divorce (sometimes referred
to as independence day)
myod - month & year of death.
common with dates from the SSDI.
SSDI - Social
Security Death Index
FOUND
an ERROR!!! make the correction with a post-em. You
provide
your own password and you (or I) can delete it later. I receive
email
notice of each post-em that is posted, I usually immediately make the
correction
in my home database. After I do an update, I confirm that post-em
correction have been made and then I delete the Post-em. This
prevents
post-ems from getting shifted to the wrong person as I add, delete and
merge individuals. If someone adds a post-em naming living individuals
which are normally hidden, then I let those post-ems remain.
Sorry,
In May 2004, Rootsweb deleted all my Post-ems. If the program
treats
a living person as dead, it's because I've added a date/location to the
death field. Having a known location is very helpful to me,
but it does make the individual look dead. SORRY!
MY
RESEARCH HAS
LIMITS!! If you descend from Archibald Sloan #1 of Lancaster Co.
Pa. then I'm interested in compiling all descendants. OTHERWISE,
I limit the Sloan database to the various spellings of Sloan, Slone,
Sloane,
Slown, etc. I limit tracking the Sloan females to one generation
of descendants, i.e. husband, children and the children's spouses. That
should be enough to provide the "Sloan Connection."
WHAT
YOU
SEE
IS ALL THAT I HAVE!! If the Surname is NOT SLOAN or it's various
spelling then I probably could care less about the surname or it's
ancestors.
If someone provides the non-Sloan spouse's parents then I note it in
the
notes field. If it's not given to me, I don't go looking for
it.
AND I DON'T HAVE ANY MORE INFORMATION, SO PLEASE DON'T ASK!!
GETTING
CREDIT
FOR YOUR RESEARCH AND HARD WORK: Nobody (including me) list themselves
as a source or the researcher in their own files. When I merge your
Sloan
gedcom files with my database, your work can quickly lose it's
identity.
I TRY to add your name & address to EACH individual file, however,
it's a lot of work and the lines get so convoluted it's easy to miss
some
people or entire branches of a family. Bottom line, I'm not trying to
take
credit for your work. You're the one that said uncle Charlie was a
drunken
horse thief, NOT ME.
BRØDERBUND'S
WORLD FAMILY TREE CDs: I currently own 2 of the 7 WFT CDs and don't
expect to buy any more. I have been lucky to find several of my
family
lines on these CDs (also a lot of conflicting data). I have certainly
got
my money's worth. For me, WFT is an excellent source to find
Sloans.
Some of the lines are well documented, but most files usually have no
supporting
reference information what-so-ever. I have downloaded a few Sloan
segments
and I'm in the process of trying to locate the submitter, which is not
listed or available for many of the files. When a WFT file is
downloaded,
it automatically adds the Brøderbund WFT reference to each field
source notes (wish I knew how to do that!) unfortunately, that gets
wiped
out when converted to HTML. I realize I need to check all those files
to
ensure Brøderbund and/or the original submitter gets the credit.
I don't like to use "PRIVATE" in a data field. Any file with that
entry is a Brøderbund file. If the WFT is cited as a
source
in any of my files, highly recommend you investigate buying the
CD.
Some of these family lines contain thousands of descendants and
ancestors,
while I'm only interested in the Sloan segments. Sorry, I cannot
download the WFT files and send them to you.
Rather
than copy
or cut & paste the data, send me a note and ask for a gedcom file
of
that particular Sloan line. (Don't forget to attach YOUR Sloan
segment!)
Some lines are so large I will probably limit the gedcom to straight
line
ancestors with siblings.
HARDWARE:
I'm
currently using an IBM type computer with plenty of storage space. This
means I can accept data in almost any format EXCEPT as an E-mail
attachment
from someone using a MAC.
SOFTWARE:
I like
using Windows, MSWord, PKZIP and Brøderbund's Family
Tree Maker is my current genealogy program. Attachments sent and
received
in these formats can usually be used "as is." Too avoid FTM
version
problems, Send genealogy info in GEDCOM format instead of FTM format.
ATTACHMENTS:
Sending
and Receiving attachments is often unpredicable due to all the
different
Servers out there. So far, I have never had a problem receiving
attachments
except from MAC users (comes out garbage). MAC users must send
everything
in body of the message.
ALLIGATOR
MOUTH,
HUMMINGBIRD REAR COMPLEX: I sometimes get caught up in the excitement
of
discovering new information, make promises to send something and then
forget
all about it. If I do, please remind me. If you have sent me a message
and received no answer, please re-transmit. I try to answer all
correspondence,
even if it's a negative response.
To make comments, corrections, or additions E-mail me at note at:
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