tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3533717770805440813.post4218982398718815198..comments2024-03-12T04:00:04.167-07:00Comments on Nutfield Genealogy: Warning! Don't do THISHeather Wilkinson Rojohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17704949156266722016noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3533717770805440813.post-73029204343744846092013-04-09T06:16:25.450-07:002013-04-09T06:16:25.450-07:00Wow! My Mom and her entire family (cousins, etc) ...Wow! My Mom and her entire family (cousins, etc) lived in Hamilton (still do!) at that time period. I'll bet you'll find a lot of Allens in those town reports. Who was your Mom? I'll bet they know each other. Heather Wilkinson Rojohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17704949156266722016noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3533717770805440813.post-562784303392820542013-04-09T06:05:03.578-07:002013-04-09T06:05:03.578-07:00Heather, this sounds scarily familiar. One of the...Heather, this sounds scarily familiar. One of the reasons I'm missing the NERGC is because I have a climate-controlled storage unit full of boxes of books in Maine that I am having moved to my new home in Falmouth, MA that weekend! This includes things like: all the annual town reports for Hamilton, MA from 1951-2000, which my mother saved and which contain valuable vital records. Do I need these?? I intended to digitize them...and then get rid of the original space-hogging books. We'll see...(I'm sure they will still be with me, this time next year - hard to let go!)AncestryInkhttp://ancestryink.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3533717770805440813.post-45673470041918434322013-04-09T05:42:07.244-07:002013-04-09T05:42:07.244-07:00Wow, upon reading the title and then seeing the wo...Wow, upon reading the title and then seeing the word "basement", I jumped to some awful conclusions... Glad your dilemma didn't turn out to be a case of sump pump failure! Pam Beveridgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06272409581983333836noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3533717770805440813.post-9674860786326521412013-04-08T14:42:48.083-07:002013-04-08T14:42:48.083-07:00Let's hear it for pack rats everywhere! This i...Let's hear it for pack rats everywhere! This is a perfect example of why I cling to my "stuff."The Art of Genealogyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14560028999694449742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3533717770805440813.post-52865720434678045252013-04-08T10:53:20.419-07:002013-04-08T10:53:20.419-07:00Cousin Heather I feel your pain!
It is stories l...Cousin Heather I feel your pain! <br /><br />It is stories like this that feed my pack rat proclivities ("disease" my wife might say). I too am a saver and suffer real discomfort when I have to make decisions about trimming things down. A refrain builds up in my head each time I start the winnowing process (particularly with books), "But what if I need this or can use this in the future. . . ." ;-) Thanks for the reminder -- or as my family might say "for the enabling." ;-)Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14139639019457759712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3533717770805440813.post-74831415888104149752013-04-07T11:28:15.282-07:002013-04-07T11:28:15.282-07:00Whew. Your house is like ours, overflowing with bo...Whew. Your house is like ours, overflowing with books. As a pair of college teachers, we are buying more books all the time. It's like they are our life blood. We think we should "purge" some, so that our descendants won't have to sell them all on eBay, but we hesitate and hesitate.<br /><br />Your experience certainly supports our hesitation. No, I did not know that some authors of journal articles withhold permission for their articles to be digitized.<br /><br />And here we are as genealogists, being constantly told to archive our materials and then "back up" everything digitally. Somewhat confusing. But it's reassuring that NEHGs answered you!Mariann Reganhttp://mariannsregan.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3533717770805440813.post-25629502196687080892013-04-07T08:31:10.607-07:002013-04-07T08:31:10.607-07:00Hello Ryan, Thanks so much for your comment. I di...Hello Ryan, Thanks so much for your comment. I did not see the onscreen message about the webmaster sending the NEXUS and the Register articles (I was probably in a panic!) This is great to have your message here for everyone who reads this post. However, the full site search is not intuitive, I don't think most (or any) of your users would have figured that one out. ~ HeatherHeather Wilkinson Rojohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17704949156266722016noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3533717770805440813.post-26532748611493044292013-04-07T08:18:33.586-07:002013-04-07T08:18:33.586-07:00Hi, Heather:
The few Register articles for which ...Hi, Heather:<br /><br />The few Register articles for which authors or their estates denied electronic publishing rights (this really only happened during the CD-Rom period from about 1985 to 1998 - pre website) are accessible by contacting webmaster@nehgs.org, per the onscreen message.<br /><br />Regarding NEXUS, we have scanned all issues and need to continue mobilizing a volunteer corp to index the issues. As the former newsletter of the society, it contains a lot of non-genealogical material, so recent efforts have been directed towards digitizing journals with a greater density of research articles. We can also send NEXUS articles, as needed, via webmaster@nehgs.org. <br /><br />Regarding, full site search: the search field on the homepage, the keyword field on the advanced search page and the search field on the top right of all other pages, will produce a site search of all NEHGS web pages. See "other AmAn.org" tab of results pages.<br /><br />Thank you for your feedback!<br /><br />Best regards,<br />Ryan Woods<br />NEHGSRyan Woodshttp://www.americanancestors.orgnoreply@blogger.com