my genealogy on the www mike sheldon aaa
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My Genealogy on the WWW
Mike Sheldon AAA
www.drmikesheldon.com
www.sheldongenealogy.com
AAA Like most of us I have spent many hours
visiting libraries and record centres to examine original documents.
There is an issue about the accuracy of on-line information – and how can you check it?
But the future has to be on the www as it is not practical for most people to go back to the original resources – but someone needs to, and make an accurate record of what is there – at a fair price!
These 3 attributes are the most important reason for building a personal web presence.
So where should my information go?
SoG library – preferably as a DVD
Put all my papers in a box and in my will pass them on to someone else
Most of us now use computers to record and keep data
Put up my tree on commercial web sites
Have my own web site – or even in cooperation with other researchers
The SoG welcomes our research
The Internet Generation
We are the past ! Paper will soon cease to be available. The SoG library will soon be all electronic
How accurate are resources on the web? A story about indexes.
Ancestry.co.uk
Help from the 1841 census ?
Name Index at Ancestry.co.uk is flawed Looking at the actual pages, what I saw
as Sheldon in the images, appear in the index as –
Skelton Skeltona Shelden Skeldon
Shddn Shelan Shelley
Alphen Canstand
Ancestry.co.uk
Although the indexers may have got it wrong, at least the original image of the census was also there.
This is a good lesson for always having both – an image of the original and an index of the contents.
So one of my valued items on my web site is the Bigland pedigree.
The value of seeing the original sources Bigland Pedigree story
Book about the Sheldon’s by Barnard. Now out of print but I photocopied most of it.
In it he mentions a full pedigree of the Sheldon’s held by Mrs Warriner of Weston Park.
I visited Warwick library and there I saw an entry for the Bigland Pedigree
Bigland Pedigree – my on-line copy
AVALIABLE
Valuable Resources placed on line
Anyone in the world can see them. You can update and correct information at any
time Web sites can be archived and so saved for
the future. Other people can contact you with information
they have recorded. An international community of Sheldon
researchers can be linked together.
The Fosbrook Family
More resources I want to record
There is an out of print book about the famous Sheldons by EAB Barnard.
I have a photocopy of it so does Ancestry.co.uk – but they charge you to look at any pages.
I want to put it up for free
The Dilemma
Is it better to give your information to a commercial web site and then pay to have access to it.
Or create your own web site (and pay for it) and keep it up to date?
Either may be appropriate – I chose to go my own way.
How to make a web site
As it was a few years ago I started I had to study quite a bit about computers first.
Today it is a lot easier.
OU course on web design, and then learned how to use Dreamweaver.
Dreamweaver
mgsheldon.org
Using Search Engines
DONT put – Mike Sheldon – in the box – well down the page as there are so many Mike Sheldons in the world.
DO put – “Dr Mike Sheldon” – comes up at the top after the adverts
Any Questions ?