[AT] Backing up tractor pictures and degenerating into a ramble.

[Steve W.]

Farmer,
 Which version of Family Tree are you using? The free one or the paid
one. I have been using the free one but wondered what the paid can do
that the free version won't. I have been working on the Williams, Edick,
Gage, Bloomer lines. My mother was the Gage/Bloomer family historian for
most of her life and researched back to Holland. She was also the town
historian for the village of Canajoharie NY for 20 years as well. I
assisted her with houses and some of the research. The big problem is
that my "father" won't let anyone dig through the paperwork and find the
Gage/Potter stuff so it can be entered and turned over to the current
historian of the family. He just says it isn't his problem. I think the
next time he goes on vacation I'm going to dig around.

Steve Williams

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <robinson at svs.net>
To: <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2005 12:24 PM
Subject: [AT] Backing up tractor pictures and degenerating into a
ramble.


> Actually I don't bother backing up tractor pictures or even take many
any
> more. I have a lot of good pictures in my head. Funny, as I typed that
I had an
> image flash through my head of John Girrard's little home made tractor
that
> looks like it was built with a cutting torch and an arc welder...
:-)
> My big back up item is my genealogy work. The Legacy Family Tree
software
> creates its b/u in a zip file and it takes very little room. It will
even fit
> on a 1.4 floppy. I am very careful about that file. Once about a year
ago a
> computer glitch cost me a months work. Now in addition to my normal
b/u stuff I
> keep two floppies, a CD, b/u files on three desktops, a zip drive and
my laptop
> and at two locations on the web...   :-)   I am also going to send it
as an
> attachment to several other family members. I don't want to lose that
baby...
> All of my family tree working notes I keep on other hard drives and
password
> protected. I also have a lot of "files and piles" of paper notes.
> Much of my stuff is older equipment but I like to putter so I have two
desk
> sitting side by side that look a little like the Titan mission
control. I have
> 4 desktop PCs and my laptop all networked together and 5 monitors. I
barely
> have room to write out a postcard...   ;-)
> I still putter along with the family tree stuff and do a tiny bit most
days
> but I have given the all out effort a bit of a rest for the last 6
months to
> avoid going completely mad. Too much else going on. I started with
little more
> than nothing beyond my great grand parents a few years ago (less on
Diana's
> family) and it is now up above 1,700 names, most with places, dates,
marriages
> etc. Some of these folks can really hide... It will never be done,
they can't
> be. I am reaching the point where I will soon publish what I have for
the
> benefit of family and let someone else hopefully pick up the work
later and go
> on. Over the last several years I have spent more time in cemeteries
than some
> of the dead folks.   :-)
>
> BTW, does anybody here live close to Warsaw (Duplin County) NC ?...
:-)
>
> I have long enjoyed Mike Sloans ads from the Lancaster Farming paper
for two
> reasons. One is simply that they are interesting. The other is that
both Diana
> and I (especially Diana) have roots in that area. 95% or more of her
family
> tree is German/Swiss Penn dutch and almost all in Lancaster County.
Part of my
> maternal line is from northern MD and York County (next to Lancaster)
PN. As I
> read the ads I often wonder if some of the folks running the ads are
distant
> relatives or if some of the antiques they sell were ever used by our
families
> ancestors there. If only those things could talk. Maybe it is just as
well that
> they can't...   ;-)
> At least tractors mostly have serial numbers. Genealogy can have a lot
of
> problems that are about the equivalent of someone switching serial
number
> plates between tractors. You can spend years tracking a line then
modern DNA
> testing can prove that one horny milkman 100 years ago threw the whole
thing
> out the window...   ;-)
> Just a couple of weeks ago a fellow about my age on one of my surname
list
> found after tracing what he thought was his line for many many years
that he
> was adopted and never told about it... Talk about devastated. The last
he
> posted he had gathered himself and was going to push on anyway... He
has no
> clue about his birth parents.
> BTW, I suspect that either Diana or I are related to more than one
member of
> this list. It is funny how last names keep popping up...
>
>
>
> -- 
> farmer, Esq.
>       Wealth beyond belief, just no money...
>
>
> Francis Robinson
> Central Indiana USA
> robinson at svs.net
>
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