October 2011 Featured Forms:- Drop Chart Template

- Photo Dating Template

- Genedocs Feedback Form

BONUS Form:Animated Timeline NEW!

Essence Exclusive:Virtual Cemetery NEW!

It is surprisingly already October 2011 with only two months until 2012!

This issue concludes the 2011 Essence Issue so I wish you the

readers a safe and happy holiday season throughout the next

few months and look forward to bringing more improvements to

family research and legacy preservation through Genedocs in

2012.

Thank you for your continued support and feedback on this

worthwhile endeavor to keep family trees a high priority in

peoples’ ever increasingly busy lives. Please enjoy this issue

and many more to come.

Sincerely,

Eric / Founder

Begin by narrowing the identity of someone in the photo – Cousin Ronnie

Luna advised me this had been confirmed by his mother as a family group

photo of ancestors William G Tucker wife Mary I Pool Tucker and daughter

Bertha M Tucker in the back row.

Census records for the

Tuckers in Hopkins

County, TX revealed

the names of William

and Mary’s children in

birth order as follows:

William Ira b 1885

Bertha Mary b 1887

Molder Harvey b 1889

Jocey Lue b 1890

Jessy Marvin b 1893

Homer Johnson b1898

Myrtle Ethel b 1892

Etter Gladys b 1897

Marion Francis b1900

Dollie Emmie b 1902

This can be used to date this photo to about

1902-3 since Dollie is no more than 1 year

old in mother Mary’s arms and helpful in

identifying an earlier photo of the same

family from cousin Edith Hicks…

Probably 1893-94 with Jessy M in Mary’s

armsI was especially delighted by the recent sharing of this photo of

Bill and Mary’s headstone from findagrave.com

Recently I surmised that, other than dates and audio-visual items,

everything else in genealogy is name based!

Names of people in our family tree are personal NAMES!

Names of places where events occurred in our tree are place NAMES!

Names of events are also simply event NAMES!

This realization emphasized for me the importance and great

simplicity of timelines for our ancestors and our family tree as a

whole.

So I decided an animated

timeline or two would be great to

share…

Begin with

Birth date

Raised and

Educated

Military Svc /

Employment

Marriage /

Children

Retirement

Death

Born 10 Nov

1923 to

Richard Jelle

and Dorothy

Nelson

Raised

Yankton & Hot

Springs, SD

Worked VA

Laundry at Battle

Mountain

Sanitarium

Enlisted Army Air

Force 1943

Served with 410th

Bomb Wing in

Europe WWII

Born 10 Nov

1923 to

Richard Jelle

and Dorothy

Nelson

Raised

Yankton & Hot

Springs, SD

Worked VA

Laundry at Battle

Mountain

Sanitarium

Enlisted Army Air

Force 1943

Served with 410th

Bomb Wing in

Europe WWII

Honorably

Discharged 1945

Used GI Bill Attended

Chadron Teachers

College, NE and in 1951

Graduated Magna Cum

Laude

1951 Began

career with Social

Security

Administration in

Pocatello, ID

Married Sandra L

Edlund 6 Sep

1966 in Montana

Daughter Lisa

Ann born

Son Eric Ray born

This month I had a challenging run in with a Findagrave.com

submitter who was also a volunteer with Random Acts of

Genealogical Kindness also known as RAOGC.

The situation involved a memorial page for my 2nd great

grandfather on the Tucker side interred in Oklahoma. She

(volunteer) had already created a page for him, was not a relative

of him, and I had requested a transfer in March of his memorial to

me to link his direct family members (ancestors and descendants)

graves which I was already maintaining. There had been no reply

so when I re-requested it after another cousin posted his newly

found marker photo with his wife, I instinctively sent another polite

request to transfer without even remembering I had previously

asked for it months earlier from her. Most findagravers would

transfer without any issue…

The volunteer disappointingly replied stating she would not transfer

as I did not fit into the Family First policy of findagrave.com which

states they will side with any descendant within four generations of

the person which the memorial is for to determine who should

manage their page. I then advised her I was removing all of my

photos of this ancestor from her pages for him and his wife and

would handle the matter in another way – adding a duplicate

memorial for him and another memorial for his wife under her

maiden name so I could address a certain date of birth error. The

volunteer responded by threatening to have his duplicate memorial

removed.

So after considering my options carefully, I removed the duplicate

page for my 2nd great grandfather and began a virtual cemetery

photo album on facebook in my Genedocs Wetpaint profile.

1. Start by determining the scope of your desired cemetery; ancestors

only, siblings of ancestors, certain surnames, female ancestors, etc.

2. Continue by scanning and organizing all graphics you want to

include; headstone / marker photos, portraits of deceased

relatives, 3D images, flowers, etc.

3. Pick a visual format and program that works well such as walking

tour using Microsoft Power Point.

4. Begin designing your virtual cemetery and customize it to your liking.

2011 has been a very important and special year as I struggled

moving to a new state, finally landed a new full time job with the

National Archives in Fort Worth, and somehow managed to not

only keep up with Genedocs deadlines, but add the astounding

interactive dimension of facebook, the Genedocs blog(s), my

first Genedocs books on Lulu.com, and actually fit in some

research.

I am pleased to take this opportunity to sincerely thank

everyone who followed Genedocs during the 2011 Essence

Series in some fashion or another whether at the wonderful

wetpaint wiki web pages, the phenomenal facebook profile,

blossoming blog at blogger, the literary launches at Lulu.com,

the essential E-Magazine issues, or elsewhere as I was able to

post.