As some of you know, I am interested in establishing a permanent, easy to access, source of information about EV/EB families. Most family historians are usually concerned with documenting information about the 3-6 generations of descendants having a common set of ancestors; or they concentrate on all the ancestors of an individual or a couple. Thus they concentrate on those people (aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents,) of most interest to, or genetically related to, the people who would normally attend a family reunion. Such efforts are the most popular, highly desirable, ongoing and ever changing subjects for study. The EV/EB archives would, of course, provide only a part of the information of interest to such researchers; but combined with other Surname resources, a reliable source of EV/EB data should make the tasks of future family historians much easier. The goals of this project would be fourfold as shown below, along with some of the tasks required.
A. Establish a source of reproducible vital statistics source records.
Provide a registry of original source materials that document vital statistics of EV/EB ancestors. Unfortunately, the largest single source of data about EV/EB individuals has very few source citations. Much work remains to be done to remedy this void.
Find individuals who have available time, interest, scanners, copying equipment, know how, or mobility etc., that would enable them to make copies, digital, photographic or otherwise. These 'modern archaeologists' could then copy items of interest located near them for people who do not have the necessary resources.
Maintain reproducible copies of original source material from which family historians can obtain copies for their works.
B. Provide a locator service and permanent storage facility for EV/EB unique items:
Maintain an updated database of EV/EB vital statistics data.
Provide a location registry of EV/EB Family Treasures such as artifacts, photos, etc.
Provide a permanent, safe, and accessible repository for EV/EB Family Treasures that individuals don't desire to store themselves.
Maintain a registry of published and unpublished histories containing EV/EB data.
Maintain a library of histories of EV/EB families.
Maintain a collection of biographies of EV/EB researchers.
C. Increase access and knowledge about sources of information about EV/EB families
Spread the word about Webpages, LDS files, and other computer files, offline and online, containing data about EV/EB families. Maintain a registry of such files.
Publish a newsletter.
D. Set up a mechanism to carry on this work after I am unable to work on it.
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