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Let’s Collaborate - Tools
• Challenges
• Traditional Tools
• Additional TFA Tools
Collaboration Challenges
• Size of Taylor Family - Association• Mobility of families• Expodential growth of families • Maintaining communication & connection • Challenge share family information, sources, pictures and histories, avoid duplication of research and temple work to hasten the gathering of our family.
Remember -Taylor’s are 11+ Generation Americans
• William Taylor (1787-1839) & Elizabeth Patrick had 14 children & 188 grandchildren.
• His father, Joseph Taylor Jr. (1751-1819) & Sarah Best had 12 children & 109 grandchildren
• His father Joseph Taylor Sr. (abt 1730-1808), & Nancy had 8 children• His father Richard III (1694-1734) & Dinah Bruce had 4children • His father Richard II (1672-1730) & Jenet Owen had 8 children • His father Richard I (abt 1641) & Margaret Manning had 8 children after
he came to America • We think Richard l was one of 3 children of John (abt 1621) & Dorothy
Traditional Family Collaboration• Visits• Sunday dinners and holidays• Reunions• Letters• Pedigree charts and family group sheets• Phone calls• Emails – Group email• Social media
Additional TFA CollaborationTools
• TFA Website• Google• Family Search etc.– Books and Journals– Family Tree & Resources– Certified Partners
• Puzzilla• Legacy Family Tree• Legacy Stories
• Social Networks
TFA Website www.taylorassociation.org
• Biographical & Historical sketches (over 300 available)• Pedigree – Dead are available to public/login for living• Online research library• Searchable Taylor Times• Digitizing Obituaries - Taylor Times etc.• To add: Online Library – Pictures, Artifacts
– Links to other sites – general and Taylor sites with date– Links to family and association websites of interest with date– Family websites with date
• Help us gather more.
• Private side - sign in• Journals and Books• Forums available – check bios etc.
• Search• Drive
– TFA Database Transfers,– Computer Tools - application and computer support– Management for TFA– TFA policy issues, admin, collaboration and support– Slicer support – processes, job descriptions
• Hangouts – Collaboration, Sharing, Training• YouTube - TFA channel – “TFAPRES” • Google+ - Slicer/Sub-slicer groups or family groups
Family SearchBooks & Journals etc.
• Books and Journals– Digitized– Links
• FHL/FHC scanning and digitizing free• Provide links or reference location to Taylor
Website
Family Search – Family Tree• Do not make it your Primary family database
– Open site – WIKI - not authoritative “person” management– Not a complete Book of Remembrance– Growing but not a lot of Primary Sources
• Adding Resources – at over 1M a week from world wide sources
• New Database partner – free to LDS members– My Heritage- trees opinions– Ancestral Quest – changes, trees opinions – Find my past
Family Search – Family Tree
• Watch lists, - check who is changing your line• Photos, - historical photos not albums of pictures• Memories – Collaborate not duplicate stories • New Hints - sources for FS databases Demo
Family Tree – Certified Partners
• Puzzilla - cousins• Billion Graves – data accuracy• Find a grave –data accuracy• Legacy Family Tree• Legacy Stories – Pic-Oral memoir - living and dead
Legacy Family TreeGenealogy Software
• Version 8 - Features, Family Tree sync, Web links, Maps etc
• Plus digitized historical events, with: documents, pictures, audio, web linked multimedia and sources – Start with Book of Remembrance events, – Timelines and Maps (Google Earth)
• Many reports and projects– Anaylsis/Statistics, books
• Mobile application “Families”
Legacy Stories app
• Stores and shares stories from a cloud– Multimedia recorded family events– Link to Family History software applications
–Living & Dead• FamilySearch Link for Dead
– Tag with key words for searching
Social Media
• Facebook– Taylor Family Association
• Twitter• Instagram• Etc