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a few facts about what you will find on my genealogy pages and
what you will not find here. First of all you will not find any
links that I have a monetary interest in. I am not serving any
affiliate ads or links here. You will find links to other sites
that I
have found to be useful, helpful or entertaining to me.
I maintain this site at my own expense and derive no income from
it.
Since
"pop-up" ads have become such a problem on the internet
I try not to link to sites that serve one up every time you go to
a new page. If I link to a site that has "pop-ups" it is
because I really like it enough to suffer through them. You
will also find a link from time to time to sites that are only in
existence because they are able to use free web space and usually
those servers compensate by using banner ads or pop-up ads in
trade for the free space on their server. There are many worthy
sites on free servers.
You should not run across any pop-up advertising on my site. If
you have windows popping up out of nowhere then they are being
served up to you through your browser or some other program that
you may or may not know has installed it's self on your computer
and I have had a couple of those myself just recently. I regularly
use Spy-Bot
Search and Destroy and AD-Aware
to get rid of them. Spy-Bot is totally free at the moment and
AD-Aware has a free version as well as a version that you can
purchase. I have been using Spy-Bot
almost exclusively lately.
I have obtained my data from census records and images, the online
social security databases, some states just recently are putting
marriages and divorces online, property records, wills, my family
letters, photographs, documents, family conversations and/or
situations where I have been present, and information through the
internet by way of personal web sites, gedcom files, genealogy sites and sharing of
information.
It would be impossible for me to guarantee that all information is
completely accurate. I have encountered instances of
conflicting data and try to verify as much as I am able which is
why some of the data is slow in getting posted. Even being as
careful as possible I myself make typos or come across census,
county and state records that may have errors on them. This is a
family site and has been started so that family, friends and
visitors can enjoy the excitement of discovering our family roots.
Please never hesitate to contact me if you would like to share
information or if I have incorrect or incomplete information that
you are aware of and would like to correct. If you ever find any
information on this site that directly relates to you that I have
inadvertently posted incorrectly or that you would like removed,
just email me. If I am "Doing It Wrong", let me know in
a kind way so that I can "Do It Right". :o)
I have set my own stopping place with regard to living family
members. I do have the first and last names of some family members
that are still living posted but no other information is given. I
try to use only the last name of living relatives that I do not
know personally. I may have more information or more information
on generations further down the line but usually will not even
post the last names of those living members below the generation
that holds it's information private. I do not want to knowingly
invade anyone's privacy.
There is data from Census Records on these pages and in
order to help you to understand the shortened transcriptions, you
can download in .pdf format a blank sample for each year of the
census from 1790
through 1930 Here
free and they only take a few seconds. At the bottom of every page
in the genealogy section you will find a link to the Census Forms
Samples. You can print out these blank forms and use them to copy
census data. I am saving all the census data that I have for the
surnames that I am researching and in the future this information will
eventually be posted on separate pages and indexed by the
individual families referenced.
My photographs: Many of my family photographs are photocopies of pictures
that my niece in Oklahoma has and then I've scanned them to my computer. Some of the original pictures were already
in very frail condition. So naturally the quality of many of them are somewhat
degraded and I apologize for this, but I think you will find that
your enjoyment will not be any the less for it.
THE FUTURE: There will be many more links to other
genealogy web sites, photographs, family stories, biographies,
surnames and data added weekly, if not on a daily basis. I hope
that you enjoy the web site as much as I enjoy working on it.
Kindest Regards,
Liz, Your Webmaster
Last Updated ~ June 17, 2003
"THE TWIG DOESN'T FALL FAR FROM THE
BRANCH"
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