Let’s Collaborate - Tools
• Challenges
• Traditional Tools
• Additional TFA Tools
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.
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
Traditional Family Collaboration
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Visits
Sunday dinners and holidays
Reunions
Letters
Pedigree charts and family group sheets
Phone calls
Emails – Group email
Social media
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
TFA Website
www.taylorassociation.org
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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
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– Family websites with date
Help us gather more.
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Private side - sign in
Journals and Books
Forums available – check bios etc.
Google
• Search
• Drive
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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
Family Search
Books & Journals etc.
• Books and Journals
– Digitized
– Links
• FHL/FHC scanning and digitizing free
• Provide links or reference location to Taylor
Website
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
Family Search – Family Tree
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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
Family Tree – Certified Partners
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Puzzilla - cousins
Billion Graves – data accuracy
Find a grave –data accuracy
Legacy Family Tree
Legacy Stories – Pic-Oral memoir - living and dead
Legacy Family Tree
Genealogy 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”
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
Social Media
• Facebook
– Taylor Family Association
• Twitter
• Instagram
• Etc