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Showing posts with label Family Organization. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 5, 2016
INVITATION TO JOIN OUR FAMILY ORGANIZATION
If you are not currently a member of our family organization - please a couple of minutes to click on the following link and provide us with your contact information. The link will also provide you with more information about the services we offer:
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https://www.surveymonkey.com/
Thank you for taking the time to do this for us.
Wednesday, May 18, 2016
Our Web Presence
Since about 2000 we have had a web presence and over the last 4 years we have branched out into social media to see if we can reach out to more of John and Hannah's descendants.
Our first - and primer effort - is our web page at Carterville.com which is hosted by Charles Carter. Charles was the originator of this site and has borne the cost of keeping this site up and running all these years. In the past few years our family organization has contributed to the cost of the site but that is a small contribution when you consider all the hours and hours of labor he puts into the site to keep it current (along with his helpers.) Even before FamilySearch developed Family Tree where all kinds of memories can be posted on people, Carterville was developed where we could post our genealogy and attach pictures, stories, documents and sources of all of our relatives. It really is a great site and we strongly encourage all who read this to go there and register.
Registering at Carterville.com - First go to the web site. On the home page do not click the log in that is right below Web Log. That is for the web log on the front page. You want to go further down the right sidebar to "Register" far down the list. You will first be asked to fill in a captcha and click Submit. This will direct you to the registration page. Please fill in all starred fields. After you Submit this you will receive an email with further directions. There is no charge to register. We have done this to keep control over our data there so only family members who are registered can see it.
In 2012 we began to test the waters of Facebook. Currently there are several sites about our family found there. First there is a private group the John and Hannah Carter Family group. It is closed and you will need to request to join us. If you click join you will quickly be admitted into the group. (This group will soon be renamed the John & Hannah Knight Libby Carter Family Organization group.) It will then become our official presence on Facebook. This is a great group to meet your cousins and exchange information and news.
Currently there is a "page" on Facebook with the name the John and Hannah Knight Libby Carter Family Organization. We are currently in the process of closing this down and migrating the information found there over to the current John & Hannah Carter Family group. We would encourage you to go to the group rather than this page.
For quite a while I have run a page on Facebook for my ancestor William Furlsbury Carter. If you search for his name within Facebook this page will come up. It is there to promote information about William. Since it is a page there is nothing you have to join to view it.
The one other site I am aware of is the Robbins Family Society which is a public group on Facebook. You will have to join it to participate. This is for the descendants of Daniel and Hope Robins whose descendants married into our Carter clan.
If I have missed something please let me know.
Our first - and primer effort - is our web page at Carterville.com which is hosted by Charles Carter. Charles was the originator of this site and has borne the cost of keeping this site up and running all these years. In the past few years our family organization has contributed to the cost of the site but that is a small contribution when you consider all the hours and hours of labor he puts into the site to keep it current (along with his helpers.) Even before FamilySearch developed Family Tree where all kinds of memories can be posted on people, Carterville was developed where we could post our genealogy and attach pictures, stories, documents and sources of all of our relatives. It really is a great site and we strongly encourage all who read this to go there and register.
Registering at Carterville.com - First go to the web site. On the home page do not click the log in that is right below Web Log. That is for the web log on the front page. You want to go further down the right sidebar to "Register" far down the list. You will first be asked to fill in a captcha and click Submit. This will direct you to the registration page. Please fill in all starred fields. After you Submit this you will receive an email with further directions. There is no charge to register. We have done this to keep control over our data there so only family members who are registered can see it.
In 2012 we began to test the waters of Facebook. Currently there are several sites about our family found there. First there is a private group the John and Hannah Carter Family group. It is closed and you will need to request to join us. If you click join you will quickly be admitted into the group. (This group will soon be renamed the John & Hannah Knight Libby Carter Family Organization group.) It will then become our official presence on Facebook. This is a great group to meet your cousins and exchange information and news.
Currently there is a "page" on Facebook with the name the John and Hannah Knight Libby Carter Family Organization. We are currently in the process of closing this down and migrating the information found there over to the current John & Hannah Carter Family group. We would encourage you to go to the group rather than this page.
For quite a while I have run a page on Facebook for my ancestor William Furlsbury Carter. If you search for his name within Facebook this page will come up. It is there to promote information about William. Since it is a page there is nothing you have to join to view it.
The one other site I am aware of is the Robbins Family Society which is a public group on Facebook. You will have to join it to participate. This is for the descendants of Daniel and Hope Robins whose descendants married into our Carter clan.
If I have missed something please let me know.
So why a family organization?
Many of us who are researchers realized 15 or so years ago that we were spinning our wheels duplicating each other's work and not really accomplishing much. So as genealogists we wanted to unify our efforts.
At the same time it was apparent that there are many traditions within the family that needed to be revisited and either verified or proven false. Traditions are tricky things. Some have always been there and some have evolved over time from one thing to something different as each generation puts their spin on the story.
The last, probably the biggest part was that we were loosing touch with each other. How many of us are there? Now that is a good question. I have a Roots Magic data base that I work from which includes all the descendants I know of. If I generate a descendancy report for John and Hannah I get over 12,100 people in about 3,800 families, and that is only the tip of the iceberg as it were. I don't have many of the living descendants so we estimate there are really at least 40,000 to 50,000 of us scattered far and wide. Obviously we can't bring all these people together but we can try to unite those that are sincerely interested in learning more about our heritage.
In the next post we will explore the specific activities we have taken to accomplish our goals.
At the same time it was apparent that there are many traditions within the family that needed to be revisited and either verified or proven false. Traditions are tricky things. Some have always been there and some have evolved over time from one thing to something different as each generation puts their spin on the story.
The last, probably the biggest part was that we were loosing touch with each other. How many of us are there? Now that is a good question. I have a Roots Magic data base that I work from which includes all the descendants I know of. If I generate a descendancy report for John and Hannah I get over 12,100 people in about 3,800 families, and that is only the tip of the iceberg as it were. I don't have many of the living descendants so we estimate there are really at least 40,000 to 50,000 of us scattered far and wide. Obviously we can't bring all these people together but we can try to unite those that are sincerely interested in learning more about our heritage.
In the next post we will explore the specific activities we have taken to accomplish our goals.
Tuesday, May 17, 2016
Welcome to our John and Hannah Knight Libby Carter Family Organization Blog
This is a blog devoted to the family of John and Hannah Knight Libby Carter. We have a formal family organization under the name of The John and Hannah Knight Carter Family Organization. Our main presence is a web site: Carterville.com. To see the genealogy there you will need to register (for free) and indicate how you are related to this couple. We also have a private group at Facebook. Just search for us by name.
Our organization is formed in the hope that we can bring a better sense of family unity to the thousands of descendants of John and Hannah. We are scattered all over the world and have probably never personally met each other, but we do share a common heritage. It is to the education and spread of this heritage that we in the family organization are dedicated.
We hold family reunions every other summer. Last summer (2015) we met in the Omaha, Nebraska area and learned about our family's involvement in the Winter's Quarters experience. In 2013 we met in Salt Lake City and learned of the wealth of artifacts, etc. found there in the DUP museum and at the Church History Library. In 2011 we met in Provo and toured the various family sites in that area and down in Santaquin. Our inaugural meeting (of the 8 founding members of this group) was held in Nauvoo, Illinois in 2009. We toured our family sites there including Morleyville where the family lived and actually found the old, Carter Pioneer Cemetery which is on old family property southwest of Morleyville.
Our next reunion will be held in Utah - probably in the Provo area again. This will be in the summer of 2017. Our tentative plans are for the reunion in 2019 to be in San Diego, CA where we can explore our Mormon Battalion connections.
This is the cake we had made to be our dessert at our opening social for the 2015 reunion.
Our organization is formed in the hope that we can bring a better sense of family unity to the thousands of descendants of John and Hannah. We are scattered all over the world and have probably never personally met each other, but we do share a common heritage. It is to the education and spread of this heritage that we in the family organization are dedicated.
We hold family reunions every other summer. Last summer (2015) we met in the Omaha, Nebraska area and learned about our family's involvement in the Winter's Quarters experience. In 2013 we met in Salt Lake City and learned of the wealth of artifacts, etc. found there in the DUP museum and at the Church History Library. In 2011 we met in Provo and toured the various family sites in that area and down in Santaquin. Our inaugural meeting (of the 8 founding members of this group) was held in Nauvoo, Illinois in 2009. We toured our family sites there including Morleyville where the family lived and actually found the old, Carter Pioneer Cemetery which is on old family property southwest of Morleyville.
Our next reunion will be held in Utah - probably in the Provo area again. This will be in the summer of 2017. Our tentative plans are for the reunion in 2019 to be in San Diego, CA where we can explore our Mormon Battalion connections.
This is the cake we had made to be our dessert at our opening social for the 2015 reunion.
This is a good portion of us at the Kanesville Tabernacle in Council Bluffs, IA
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