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From: ACP <>
Subject: What I've not shared, was: Is this what research has become?
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 03:46:24 -0600
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I may hunt those files out someday and create a web
page for them. Right now, and for the past couple
of years, they have been stuck offline on CDs.

I have several old pics which include places and
people known by my ancestors, but not of my
ancestors. Some old pics have other people in the
pics with my ancestors.

My ancestors had written on the back of the
photos, things like "Aunt Mable" (there wasn't
one), "Douglas girls", "grandma Inman" (wasn't
one), "Ed and Shorty", "Baby Merlin", "Ed's sister",
"Thelma and Sam", "XXXXX school, class year
NNNN", "Church where XXXXXX was baptized", etc.
I'm paraphrasing, because I don't remember
what all the pics were. There were even a
few with no labels at all, including a tintype,
which I titled, "Ugliest Child on the Planet".

Most of the unknown pics were of those people related
to people in my auxilliary lines and their friends.
Names which come to mind were Douglas, Messick,
Inman, McGehee, Parker, Van Hamm, LeRoy, Rush,
Jackson and many more I just can't remember
right now (note the "capital police" will likely
hunt me down). All those pics would date from
1870 to 1930, with most being between 1905-1920.
States involved would most likely be OK, AR, MO,
KS, NM, IL, IN, KY and one I'm sure is NY and
I know who the woman is related to, but not who
she is. For the most part, I don't research
the lines I listed above.

When I first got a digital camera, I used to
visit little, old cemeteries (ones I could do
in 3 or 4 hours) and take a pic of every stone/
marker in the cemetery. I never did find a
way to share those with anyone (no list or
website available, so I had those only on HD.
I lost most of them when the primary HD and
then the external backup HD failed within a
few days of each other. Talk about an
emotional event!!! :-(

Now, I occasionally post a few of these pics
in the alt.binaries.e-book.genealogy USENET
newsgroup.


Barbara Smith wrote:
> Hi,
> I do know what you mean. I used to keep 3 share sites just for such
> reasons. Also there were alot of people willing to share but wanted a
> place they could post theirs and have others willing to share with them
> post theirs. I let anyone post so those things like you now have could
> be shared. I found alot of people really didn't want to keep up there
> own site or really didn't have enough information on any one line to
> really start one and some didn't have the money and some had clippings
> and such they had found helping others and was willing to share them to
> help others as some people don't share even when they got it by someone
> shareing with them.
> Can you tell us what you have maybe we can help find family members that
> would really love to have them and treasure your wonderful findings.
> Barbara
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "ACP" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 1:32 AM
> Subject: Re: [ARKANSAS] Is this what research has become?
>
>
>>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> As an administrator of another rootsweb list
>>
>> ...snipping....
>>
>>> Rootsweb created these lists for the sharing of information. It is not
>>> anyone's personal realm. Not even the administrator's. Some do act like
>>> petty tryants and should be removed from the position of administering a
>>> list.
>>> If you find that this problem continues to exist on this list, you
>>> can go
>>> to Rootweb.com and request that a new list be created and you will
>>> then be
>>> the administrator.
>>
>>
>> Let me add a bit of reality to this statement.
>>
>> I tried this a few years ago and discovered that
>> those tyrant list admins have champions among the
>> rootsweb admin/support staff. I tried to start
>> a new list, so those of us who didn't like and
>> couldn't work within, the religious, know-it-all
>> and narrow minded atmosphere of the old ones.
>> Two of my list requests were very legitimate, with
>> much supporting reasoning/logic/documentation.
>> I'll have to admit 3 were iffy. After the 5th
>> try, I gave up. The rootsweb support person I
>> spoke with was completely unwilling to create
>> ANY of the requested new lists and was unwilling
>> to do anything about the current lists' administrator
>> (same person, multiple lists) and was unwilling to
>> pass my request on up the chain of command.
>>
>> That has been a few years ago and I simply don't
>> do much research in that state anymore. I was just
>> doing "fill in" work, so can do without it. All of
>> the info I have come across since then, including
>> 100 year old photos which could likely help others
>> in that state/counties, are just sitting here and
>> likely will be forever. I know it isn't fair to
>> the other members to not share my info with them,
>> just because the admin was a jerk, but I have no
>> way (except USENET) to share it now. And quite
>> honestly, I'm still miffed about the whole deal. ;-)
>>
>> BTW -- the list I admin basically runs on "auto
>> pilot". I never get involved unless someone
>> specifically asks me a question or has a technical
>> problem. IMHO, that is all a list admin is for.
>> It isn't a social club and the admin is NOT the
>> president. ;-)
>>
>> oldsoul
>>

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