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OneGreatFamily 2005 Annual Growth
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OneGreatFamily Continues to
Grow!
Each November we like to take the opportunity
to share with our members the amount of growth we
have experienced each year. With your help 2005
was another amazing year for OneGreatFamily.
OneGreatFamily continues to grow and add
new branches to your global family tree! Each new
member increases the community of people with whom
you can collaborate as well as your opportunity to
find more of your ancestors. The most significant
area of growth this year has been the number of
names submitted. Over 30 million new names
have been added to OneGreatFamily this year
providing a wealth of valuable new data for
everyone to benefit from.
Total Number of
Names:
2001 - 26,786,000
2002 -
40,799,900
2003 - 60,712,000
2004 -
83,090,000
2005 - 113,484,509
This growth indicates that more and more people
are recognizing the value of sharing genealogy
information with others through common
relationships. It also demonstrates that people
are supporting OneGreatFamily's vision of creating
a common family tree that helps you identify ALL
of your ancestors.
Researching your family tree shouldn't be like
looking for a needle in a haystack. By removing
duplication and focusing on family relationships,
OneGreatFamily makes it easy to identify your
FAMILY TREE, not just an ancestor here or
there.
We are grateful for your continued support as
we make the vision of providing the world with a
common family tree a reality. We encourage you to
visit OneGreatFamily often to further your
research and make new connections to the work that
others have already done.
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Everyone Can Benefit From OneGreatFamily's
Unique Online Genealogy Software!
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OneGreatFamily can help anyone who is
interested in researching their Family Tree.
OneGreatFamily is a great resource for anybody,
from the first time enthusiast to the professional
doing client research. Its power lies in that the
OneGreatFamily Tree isn't just another collection
of family trees, but instead is a single, unified
global family tree. The system is constantly
working to merge all entered individuals into one
family tree through our patented matching system.
The three primary benefits of our system
are:
1. It's fast and easy. Simply enter what you
know (or upload your GEDCOM file) and
OneGreatFamily begins automatically checking your
information against everything else in the
OneGreatFamily Tree. And any time new data is
entered by anyone, it is automatically compared
against your data.
2. OneGreatFamily quickly and accurately finds
matches that might take you months to sleuth out
on your own. You never have to sift through huge
lists of thousands of names one by one with
OneGreatFamily-instead, it does the work for you.
3. Meet new family members. Get in touch with
others working on your family tree. Once your tree
connects with others, you can communicate with
them directly through e-mail to collaborate on
your work.
As OneGreatFamily continues to grow, we are
committed to the success of each of our members in
furthering genealogy research and connecting to
work that has already been completed in
OneGreatFamily.
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Lisa Lights the Way |
Business or Employment Records
by Lisa South, Certified Genealogist
Anyone who has filled out records for
employment knows that they can contain a great
deal of information; name, address, personal and
professional
history, education, etc. Such
information is typical of what we provide
on
employment applications today. Prior to
1900, however, employment records
usually
consisted of only one or two documents.
Researchers, therefore,
can not expect to glean
as much genealogical information from
pre-twentieth century employment records.
Depending on where your ancestors worked you
may find information about professional
organizations etc. they may have belonged to,
which could lead you to additional records. For
instance, if your ancestors worked for the
government you may find information on
naturalization, citizenship etc. If they belonged
to a union or labor organization, membership
records may exist. There may be record of
retirement or other benefits. If you ancestor was
a Physician he/she may have belonged to a medical
association, if a lawyer, the State Bar
Association.
Employers are careful about giving out
information about their employees, but if your
ancestor is deceased and you have proof of your
relationship, it will be more likely that you'll
be granted access to the records.
Some early business records have been donated
to archives, libraries etc. A search in the NUCMC
(i.e. the National Union Catalog of
Manuscript
Collections) may help you to locate
them.
If you don't know what the NUCMC is, the
information is in the November 4, 2005 edition of
this Newsletter.
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Contributors: Heather Matthews, Lisa South
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