I scan documents and send through email so that they can be shared...... The researcher can order the documents from the information on the copy if they need a legal copy...........In Missouri our State Archives has done a great thing, they have put the death records from 1910 until about 1955 on line....... You can print the death certificate out on line for free..... It has helped me find several of my relatives and to find out what they died from....... I wish all states would be as helpful.....
If you had to copy and send everything to others you really couldn't afford it but scanning and sending seems to work well for me.......
Also if you have other family members researching each can take certain areas and do the research in those...... My job has always been with the census records for the most part.......Others copy info when they are close enough to the courthouses we need info from...... Others still do a little travel to help out with research...... If you make it a family project or even a group project I think you are able to obtain so much more information at the least cost to all.....Of course you will always have those who will take your records as their own but there really isn't much we can do to stop that......
I once talked to a woman on line who told me she had already completed her family genealogy all on the net too mind you.......I can only imagine what her family tree must look like.....As most of us know there is no way you ever complete this search as it is and always will be a work in progress.......Of course we know that the records available on line don't even begin to cover the records one needs....... I think this woman told me all of this took her like only a week....... LOL......
Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway!
In a message dated 07/15/08 09:48:31 Central Daylight Time, [log in to unmask] writes:
<grin> You know, I still copy most of it by hand. People ask--"Can you send me a copy of the original?" Well, no, because I just transcribed it! Of course, they think that's weird. If I copied ever doc I use I'd REALLY be in the poor house! I can give them book and page--if they just HAVE to have a copy...
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From: Mickey Fournier<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 7:49 AM
Subject: Re: [VA-ROOTS] Is Genealogy obsolete?
No, genealogy is not obsolete and never will be. Those of us sat on cement
floors in courthouse sub-basements and hand-copied documents (before the
photocopier was invented) by the light of the 20 watt bulb dangling from the
15 foot ceiling are still here.
Most of us typed, transcribed, posted and otherwise shared our research
findings and copies of our work. We just got tired of handing several
generations to some new enthusiast who never even bothers to send a word of
thanks, then posts our findings on RootsWeb or Ancestry as their own work.
Been there, done that, got the T-shirt.
And as to losing volunteers, how many of you who are complaining have
voluteered a precious minute of your time???
I will get off my soap box now - just had all I could stomach.
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