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I’m working on a genealogy project for the extended family (James, Schuster, Royster, Jackson, Price, Latimer, and so on, and so on...) including related family lines.
Below, some general resources for updating our family information, and further genealogy links.
Family members can access the current, growing Internet version of our genealogical research. Contact me for access.
- http://www.philjames.net/tng
(current GEDCOM file translated to web pages. Please request an ID, if you’re a family member. Current at 18 May, 2007, at last update here.)
- http://www.philjames.net/family2/GED4WEB/
(current GEDCOM file translated to web pages, as of 18 May, 2007 --
see footers for current file dates) This file includes most of the information gathered at the 2005 Reunion.
- Hourglass Chart (both ancestors & descendants), Mae Schuster (671 KB, PDF, JULY 17 2005)
- Hourglass Chart 1 pager (both ancestors & descendants), Mae Schuster (544 KB, PDF, JULY 17 2005)
- Descendants of Willis Samuel James (16 KB, PDF, JULY 17 2005)
- Descendants of Willis Samuel James 1 pager (13 KB, PDF, JULY 17 2005)
- Hourglass Chart (both ancestors & descendants), Alfred Ernst Schuster (33 KB, PDF, JULY 17 2005)
- Hourglass Chart 1 pager (both ancestors & descendants), Alfred Ernst Schuster (26 KB, PDF, JULY
17 2005)
- Hourglass Chart (both ancestors & descendants), George Latimer, Sr. (14 KB, PDF, JULY 17 2005)
- Hourglass Chart 1 pager (both ancestors & descendants, total of six generations only,) George Latimer, Sr. (11 KB, PDF, JULY 14 2005)
- Family Group Sheet (detailed nuclear family info.), Mae Schuster (18 KB, PDF, Jun 17 2005)
- Photos!
Notes: (about the GED4WEB files)
- There are about 1350 names
listed in this file, although it probably only represents 650+ people. I’ve merged information from 3-4 primary resources, and I’m still carefully combining the information carefully. It’s tedious, but I don’t want to merge people who are NOT duplicates, and I don’t want to lose information. For instance, there are both “
LARKINS, Sylvia” and “LARKINS, Silvia”, and I’m sure they are the same person. But, I have conflicting information about their families, so I have whole duplicate families
until I can resolve the information.
- You may find “duplicates” that are meant to be there. If someone has an alternate name, nickname, AKA event, etc., the alternate name(s) appear too, in case you’re looking for someone by that
name. This is (always will be...) still in progress, and includes cleaning up surname suffix, so “Junior” “Jr.” “III” is always separated from the surname itself.
- I encourage you to find your own record(s), and those of your families. You can look at the Family Pages (marriage, children), the list by
First Name, Pedigree Pages (ancestors of a person), and Descendant Pages
(how you come down a particular line to get to a person.) Plus some Notes.
- Sensitive information is not displayed on line, including addresses, medical information that is correctly organized, birth and marriage dates and details for living people, and so on.
- How to best identify a person? Go all the way down to their Notes page, and the last item is their Reference number. This still doesn’t make them unique, but I’m working on cleaning up this field.
(Look for the paper icon. to get to their Notes page.)
- What information am I looking for? EVERYTHING! Who is missing? Who is out of place? What in-laws don’t I know about? What historical facts aren’t listed? Who was famous? Who was an outstanding
African American, Native American, including “in their own way”? I want to gather information for our far
-flung family members to know one another better, and our future generations to have a resource to know about their ancestors.
- How best to provide this information? Well, in any way, really, but it depends on what information you have, or I DON’T have:
- Entire missing family, knowing just the basics: let’s start with an Ancestral Chart, link below.
- Entire missing family, knowing lots of details or changes, typically your own nuclear family: use the Family Group Record, link below.
- Lots of information about one person, such as yourself: provide a biography form. (I’m still looking to pick a really good one.)
- Thanks to everyone who has given me information and encouragement so far: Shirley, Liz, Ashley, Jason, Chuck, Dad, Uncle Sonny, Bob, my friend Scott -- LOTS OF PEOPLE!
- Pictures!
Also, have a look at my cousins’ sites:
General resources:
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Ancestral Chart
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Use this if you know many connections, but little information on these folks.
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Right-click the link and save locally.
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Family Group Record
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Use this form if you have extensive information on a group of people
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Right-click the link and save locally.
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Bailey’s Free Genealogy Forms
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Bailey’s main chart page (from Cyndi’s List)
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Pedigree Fan Chart
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Pedigree fan chart
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Bailey’s website (from Cyndi’s List)
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Research Record Sheet
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Research Record Sheet
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Bailey’s website (from Cyndi’s List)
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Links
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Ancestry.com
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AfriGeneas.com
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African Ancestored Genealogy
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Christine’s Genealogy Website
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African-American resources
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Cyndi’s List -- African American
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African-American references at Cyndi’s List site
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Iroots.net
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Cousin Calculator, to figure out the correct “third cousin, twice removed” terminology
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I use the pop-up one.
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African-American resources at Family Tree Magazine
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GED4WEB.com
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GED4WEB software to translate a GEDCOM file to web pages, like I’ve done
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familysearch.org/
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- ... a resource developed and maintained by the
Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints. It can be searched by last & first names, parents' and spouses' names.”
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www.discovergenealogy.com
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Kenyatta Berry’s site on Slave Genealogy
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I heard her lecture at the Santa Clara County Historical & Genealogical Society (http://www.rootsweb.com/~cascchgs/)
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Recent Changes:
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Current Location
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Shane Marie Royster
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Added 03/31/07
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Carden Grace Royster
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Added 03/31/07
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