Michael T Lancaster one word of advice don't foolish leave - like Gene Daniels told me before he was a curator - lay back a couple of weeks, a month and then come back and view your tree - - tho changes are very irritating and that we are being forced into paying for something we were told was "Free and sharing' I know its frustrating after having entered so many profiles - - I have noticed your work from the day I joined GENI on November 26, 2009 and have enjoyed your work in many of the profiles that cross into my tree
I know were are all dissatisfied with GENI on various levels and for various reasons over the changes they instituted since the big crash of August 2011 and the way that they have went about instituting for the non-pro accounts to basically useless an enticement to get you to join GENI and then have to pay to accomplish anything unless you “ASK” others who are pro or curators – it makes you feel like you are not knowledgeable of genealogy and your ancestry and inferior to the pros and curators and this is a feeling I do not appreciate since I have been working on my family lines since 1976 and I complied several manuscripts which are non-published but always shared freely for either free (if person was a major contributor) or just for the cost of Xeroxing and postage back before I was connected to the internet - back in 1982 I undertook the updating of the section of John Emery of the 1890 book John and Anthony Emery of Newbury, Ma. and collected anything and everything on the Emery name - I even started updating the descendants of Conrad Emery (these are freely available on the internet to all by me else where form a private website); I also transcribed several printed genealogies in full into PAF the Overmyer Genealogies (2 books); Stahl, and the The Norris Family of Maryland and Virginia, Genealogy of Thomas Norris 1361 – 1930 Harry Alexander Norris 1941, Transcript 4 Vols. (and the 2-3 minors books on them) this is a rare manuscript of which only 3 copies exist besides being on micro film.
I have extensive work on the Vandeventers, Hardesty/Hardisty, Edington , Mckee lines to share a lot still left to be inputed - most of my data for the Gastineaus and the Dye/duyts line is in finally I do believe as along with my Whitworth line.
I joined GENI in hopes to preserve all lmy work - to share my work with others who possibly could be connected and to possibly find very very distant cousins unknown to me who are working on these lines - and help them not to re-do all this - much of it was handed to me in outline from - I call it a “silver platter’’ since my lines remained in one county from 1823 – till mom and dad left in 1948 - and all that is left in my direct immediate line are my brother (and out 3 children and my 3 grandchildren) and 3 cousins, and an elderly Aunt of 89 none of which are interested at this moment in time in the family history in fact my unmarried Aunt refused to offer help ever in what she knew of the family which is or was a lot and only recently shared a few pictures of many which she has … I also joined because of my husbands total Scotland heritage - he being the immigrant to America in 1912 in hopes of finding people working on the very hard to trace Scotland lines and very expensive to research - I placed all information that we received from the Scots ancestry research Society back in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s from them into GENI plus what I have found through various sources online in hopes of filling out the families.
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