Ancestry/Genealogy

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in each record in familytreemaker. As printouts go, it is completely disjointed because it was never meant to be read or collated in such a fashion. In the computer program each person is listed across from their spouse, with their children underneath. When you go into each individual person‘s record you have the option of seeing pictures (and all the scanned documents, letters on that person) or the text section. I input facts into each person‘s text section when I came across it in the four boxes of files I had on the family. I also put the information in as primary research with just the facts. The facts are not in chronological order. I assume that when people come to their close family members text section, they will add their own information and erase any facts that they are not interested in. Each fact is separated by a row of stars. I found some internet links on certain people and added those in as facts too. To get it proofread I printed the texts, which came out in alphabetical order by person. So what I printed out on paper doesn‘t resemble how the information will be presented on the familytreemaker program. It will be presented in context on the computer. I at times added editorialized notes to explain context of the fact or to suggest further research. This was always meant to be a narrative that was not written by me, but one that was held together by each person‘s relationships, important dates, assorted pictures and scanned letters, as well as the text I input made up of primary research facts. It is meant as a starting point for people‘s ancestral journeys to begin by turning the family records, and the work of previous family researchers, digital.