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Enhancing Taylor Family Collaboration: Tools and Challenges for Genealogy Research

Discover the vital tools and strategies for successful collaboration within the Taylor Family Association (TFA). This guide covers traditional and modern methods of communication, including visits, reunions, and digital resources like family trees and online databases. Learn how to share family histories, photos, and vital information effectively to avoid duplication of research efforts. With over 188 grandchildren from William Taylor and Elizabeth Patrick's lineage, we explore the best practices for maintaining connections and accelerating family research. Join us in this collaborative journey!

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Enhancing Taylor Family Collaboration: Tools and Challenges for Genealogy Research

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  1. Let’s Collaborate - Tools • Challenges • Traditional Tools • Additional TFA Tools

  2. Collaboration Challenges Size of Taylor Family - Association Mobility of families Expodential growth of families Maintaining communication & connection Challenge share family information, sources, pictures and histories, avoid duplication of research and temple work to hasten the gathering of our family.

  3. Remember -Taylor’s are 11+ Generation Americans • William Taylor (1787-1839) & Elizabeth Patrick had 14 children & 188 grandchildren. • His father, Joseph Taylor Jr. (1751-1819) & Sarah Best had 12 children & 109 grandchildren • His father Joseph Taylor Sr. (abt 1730-1808), & Nancy had 8 children • His father Richard III (1694-1734) & Dinah Bruce had 4children • His father Richard II (1672-1730) & Jenet Owen had 8 children • His father Richard I (abt 1641) & Margaret Manning had 8 children after he came to America • We think Richard l was one of 3 children of John (abt 1621) & Dorothy

  4. Traditional Family Collaboration • Visits • Sunday dinners and holidays • Reunions • Letters • Pedigree charts and family group sheets • Phone calls • Emails – Group email • Social media

  5. Additional TFA CollaborationTools • TFA Website • Google • Family Search etc. • Books and Journals • Family Tree & Resources • Certified Partners • Puzzilla • Legacy Family Tree • Legacy Stories • Social Networks

  6. TFA Website www.taylorassociation.org • Biographical & Historical sketches (over 300 available) • Pedigree – Dead are available to public/login for living • Online research library • Searchable Taylor Times • Digitizing Obituaries - Taylor Times etc. • To add: Online Library – Pictures, Artifacts • Links to other sites – general and Taylor sites with date • Links to family and association websites of interest with date • Family websites with date • Help us gather more. • Private side - sign in • Journals and Books • Forums available – check bios etc.

  7. Google • Search • Drive • TFA Database Transfers, • Computer Tools - application and computer support • Management for TFA • TFA policy issues, admin, collaboration and support • Slicer support – processes, job descriptions • Hangouts – Collaboration, Sharing, Training • YouTube - TFA channel – “TFAPRES” • Google+ - Slicer/Sub-slicer groups or family groups

  8. Family SearchBooks & Journals etc. • Books and Journals • Digitized • Links • FHL/FHC scanning and digitizing free • Provide links or reference location to Taylor Website

  9. Family Search – Family Tree • Do not make it your Primary family database • Open site – WIKI - not authoritative “person” management • Not a complete Book of Remembrance • Growing but not a lot of Primary Sources • Adding Resources – at over 1M a week from world wide sources • New Database partner – free to LDS members • My Heritage- trees opinions • Ancestral Quest – changes, trees opinions • Find my past

  10. Family Search – Family Tree • Watch lists, - check who is changing your line • Photos, - historical photos not albums of pictures • Memories – Collaborate not duplicate stories • New Hints - sources for FS databases Demo

  11. Family Tree – Certified Partners • Puzzilla - cousins • Billion Graves – data accuracy • Find a grave –data accuracy • Legacy Family Tree • Legacy Stories – Pic-Oral memoir - living and dead

  12. Legacy Family TreeGenealogy Software • Version 8 - Features, Family Tree sync, Web links, Maps etc • Plus digitized historical events, with: documents, pictures, audio, web linked multimedia and sources • Start with Book of Remembrance events, • Timelines and Maps (Google Earth) • Many reports and projects • Anaylsis/Statistics, books • Mobile application “Families”

  13. Legacy Stories app • Stores and shares stories from a cloud • Multimedia recorded family events • Link to Family History software applications –Living & Dead • FamilySearch Link for Dead • Tag with key words for searching

  14. Social Media • Facebook • Taylor Family Association • Twitter • Instagram • Etc

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