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copy panel: {{SurnameCategoryTOC}} -- [[Category:Surnames]] My father is Person:Thomas Yockey (5). Family lineages in simple form: User:Ceyockey/Key family joins
Users researchingAs of 8 Mar 2023, I am the only WeRelate editor who is researching Surname:Yockey. Likewise for Surname:Jaggi, Surname:Jacky, Surname:Ashburn and Surname:Blickensderfer. For Surname:Davis, there are 36 other users researching this relatively common surname.
For Surname:Mills, there are 7 other users researching. Two users have no contributions.
For Surname:Ferguson, there are 10 other users researching. Five users have no contributions; two users have <50 edits.
Surnames of interest
alphabetical: Ballinger, Blurton, Davis, Debow, Downey, Ferguson, Hicks, Kidd, Kline, Larrison, Logue, McIntyre, Miller, Mills, Riley, Stewart, Tish, Webster, Yockey Yockey ; Davis ; Ferguson ; Mills Stewart ; Downey ; Tish Riley ; Webster ; Logue ; Ballinger ; Larrison Kidd ; Miller ; Debow ; Blurton ; Kline ; Hicks ; McIntyre
Editing habitsBased on copying out contributions to Notepad++ and running regular expression searches in the form of
Total = line count.
IntroductionI am a contributor to Wikipedia (where I am an admin), Wiktionary and OpenStreetMap in addition to this Wiki.[1][2] I have been involved to a greater or lesser degree in genealogy research since the mid-1990's. After I had picked most low-hanging fruit from my own family tree, I began trying out a variety of contributory activities meant to help add information to the available pool so that others who might have reached a bottleneck might be able to progress. Most of that contributory work to date rests either in the Rootsweb environment, on various personal web pages or on paper, not yet converted to online form. --Ceyockey (joined WeRelate 2008-09-24) A small word about my background: I am a biologist turned informatics scientist, the latter term meaning that I work with data, meta-data and data transformation and organization on a daily basis, in my case in a commercial research environment ... among other activities.
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My resourcesI have created a Repository page at Repository:Ceyockey which contains sources which I have immediate physical access to, typically less common or hard to find items. Cemetery transcriptionAs noted above, now that I have come up against a number of difficult to penetrate walls in researching my own family, I have turned to transcribing cemetery populations. This section contains information on the methods I have come to around collecting and organizing this information. I consider the companion pages Interments in Lombardy Cemetery, Bellefonte, New Castle, Delaware, United States and Place:Lombardy Cemetery, Bellefonte, New Castle, Delaware, United States to be representative of the method I am currently using. Data collectionI no longer collect full information on each plot when transcribing, a very labor intensive process. Rather, I have adopted a skim-and-organize method which focuses on surveying the surnames, surname-plot associations and years of birth and death. This provides the minimum information that (I believe) a person investigating their family using on-line resources would need to determine whether a closer look is needed at a particular cemetery / plot. This method allows for the collection of information on between 100 and 200 people per hour of physical inspection of headstones. Data organizationThe organization of data about people is straightforward - ordering by surname, then birth year, then death year. More difficult is the recording of sufficient information - in the absence of official plot maps - to be able to find a plot again without extensive hunting of the cemetery grounds. Things I think need to be createdLooking at mentions
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