From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Mon Feb 13 09:23:11 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k1DGNBjb016297; Mon, 13 Feb 2006 09:23:11 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k1DGN9Xc027802 for ; Mon, 13 Feb 2006 09:23:09 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k1DDsMFI010596 for ; Mon, 13 Feb 2006 08:54:22 -0500 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k1DDsMnp010595 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Mon, 13 Feb 2006 08:54:22 -0500 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k1DDdwFI010528 for ; Mon, 13 Feb 2006 08:39:58 -0500 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k1DG8a7d008962 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Mon, 13 Feb 2006 09:08:36 -0700 X-Envelope-From: mscheffl@twcny.rr.com Mon Feb 13 09:08:36 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k1DG8ajb008951 for ; Mon, 13 Feb 2006 09:08:36 -0700 Received: from ms-smtp-01.nyroc.rr.com (ms-smtp-01.nyroc.rr.com [24.24.2.55]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k1DG8YcD019307 for ; Mon, 13 Feb 2006 09:08:35 -0700 Received: from 1070n (cpe-24-92-248-107.twcny.res.rr.com [24.92.248.107]) by ms-smtp-01.nyroc.rr.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id k1DG8U5e004360; Mon, 13 Feb 2006 11:08:32 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <007501c630b7$ba0eac30$6801a8c0@1070n> From: "MScheffler" To: , References: Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 11:08:27 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Subject: [ROOTS-L] Reconstructing data after Katrinka Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Hopefully list members can come up with some suggestions for CDunkleberger and others in the same situation to get started again. Hopefully people she has shared information with will send back to her what she has shared and if she begins to post specifics on her direct line, she may be lucky and get some helpful information. First of all, most of us will find we remember more than we think we do in the initial panic phrase. Here are a few strategies that could help in creating a replacement database: 1. One should make a paper outline of major lines as remembered -- i,e. a pedigree chart of what you remember with dates and places as you best remember 2. Subscribe to surname lists for your major lines, and peruse the message boards in locations where your family lived for things you and others posted about your ancestors. 3. Think about the relatives you gave printouts to (reports, pedigree charts, family group sheets) -- like to your grandchildren for their school projects. Some of these should have the basic facts/relationships/ and hopefully some of the sources. 4. Download the gedcoms you shared on WorldConnect/Ancestry/FTM site, etc. While these may be older versions and don't include your recent work, they may save a lot of typing. You might not have sent the notes or sources but you would still have the basic dates, places, and relationship links and can begin to fill in the details. Perhaps you sent a gedcom to a distant cousin. 5. Contact people you've had contact with in the past to send to you old copies of old email correspondence, etc. If you met them on rootsweb and don't know current email addresses, tell enough about yourself -- name, location, etc. to jog their memories that corresponded with you in the past. Even if the detail is not great, old correspondence can jog memory. 6. You may have written letters to libraries, historical societies, etc. asking for information. Some of this probably outlined your major families, and it is likely much of it may be sitting in a correspondence file. 7. Put your name/email address into Google on the search line, and you will likely turn up lots of queries you made to lists. You can also check list archives. 8. While there is much incorrect data on WorldConnect, you may find portions of your family lines there. I'm sure you're terribly discouraged about not having the old database, but if you have shared information along the way, there will likely be quite a bit of information available to help in the reconstruction process. I do wish you well. If you have lost the copy of your genealogy program, a posting to that programs list might turn up a donation of the program. And for those of you who are not regularly backing up data and keeping backups on friends or relatives computers in case something happens to one's own home, let this unfortunate circumstance be a reminder. One can have backed up carefully for years and if the place the backups are stored is destroyed, one finds themselves in a predicament they never expected. A catastrophe such as Katrina covered such a wide area, that even a backup stored on a computer a mile away might have been destroyed. A situation like Katrina should make everyone of us rethink our preservation strategies. So CDunkleberger, please put a name and some details to your family, and maybe there will be some of us who can provide you with information. Margaret Scheffler ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2006 6:10 PM Subject: [ROOTS-L] Can You Imagine? > Can you Imagine years of hard work, and money for research of your > Genealogy > to leave it to your Grandchildren and along comes a Hurricane Named > KATRINA > and takes it all with her? Imagine not even having Libraries in town for > restarting your search "Again" > Yes, help is greatly appreciated. >