Re: DONALDSONBank One Name Study
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Re: DONALDSONBank One Name Study
8/07/00
Sorry,
Can't see anything obvious
DonaldsonBank
A One Name Study in locating Donaldsons and their Researchers
It started by me trying to figure out a way to respond to the various Donaldson trees and data I received over the years along the lines, "Unfortunately I don't have a match but will retain your information and if I get a match in the future I will get back to you". Sound familiar?
I was also looking for a suspected USA Donaldson line in my tree, which. after some 20 years searching. I found in February 1998. I have a lot of'new' third cousins.
So about two years ago I decided to do something practical and put all the Donaldsons that I had (ie persons BORN with the name Donaldson into an MS Access 2 database (now MS Access 97) which I call DonaldsonBank. I can send data on a floppy (or e-mail) as an MS Access file (the best) MS Excel 5-97, PDF, or plain text if it assists. To print out the full report list of Donaldsons is some 75 plus pages now!!! Think of my postage bill, so e-mail is preferred.
The database is not a multiple family tree and it does not record spouses. Think of the logistics of that? It just finds Donaldson and tries to link them to their researchers.
As the data built up and I got a number of inquiries and made some hits (matched researchers) I decided to put it in the GRD as a one name study to see what would happen. The idea is to encourage Donaldson name researchers to correspond with one another. There are now 92 researchers in Australia, NZ, USA, Canada and the UK. Most but not all have e-mail, but their snail mail address is also provided.
What it does is to take the Donaldson researchers and 'their Donaldson names', and then sorts the names by the following criteria.
First name, then YoB, then DoB, then PoB, then CoB, then DoD, then PoD, and finally CoD in that order.
There are about 1,600 plus Donaldsons listed now and growing. The more that I have the better the chance of getting matches. This reflects the work of the current 92 Donaldson name researchers
It is also capable of selective searches, eg., 'Donaldsons born in Scotland between date and date' etc.
So to be part of DonaldsonBank I need your Donaldsons with as much of the above data as you have. The more dates and geographic info the better the chance of a match. James Donaldson unknown, unknown, unknown, etc., is not very helpful. James Donaldson b 1867 in Dundee, Scotland died Melbourne, Australia in 1916 gives a lot of opportunities to achieve a match.
I encourage you to participate, there is no charge or obligation and maybe join with other Donaldson name researchers around the world.
John Donaldson
Melbourne, Australia
Wednesday, 12 July 2000
e-mail: [email protected]
home page: http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/d/o/n/John-D-Donaldson/http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/d/o/n/John-D-Donaldson/
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