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THis is not finished yet  just wanted to share

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It's hard to make constructive comments on something unfinished; notwithstanding here are my opinions:

I am a 'meat and potatoes' person and, for me, the 8 identical (except for size) images of daisies placed throughout the profile is a little too much although I appreciate they represent the daisies collected for the funeral by the "little Italian children".

I think it is great that you have tracked down so many different articles and records but I would lke to see at least a short synopsis (particualrly of the longer articles) to capture my interest and make me want to open them and read them. Also indicating the source of each article would be good. The first article [The Clark Profile Images-393.jpg] has a wonderful image that would look good displayed right in the profile and would capture interest (who are all those children in the picture? I should read the profile/article to find out)

I would like to see the sources 'reduced', by which I mean choose the 'strongest' source for each version of a fact. Any sources that end up not being used can be listed as 'see also'. For example if I have a published genealogy, a birth record, and an obituary and none contradict the others, I would cite the birth record for name, birth date/place, and parents, the published genealogy for marriage date/place, and the the obituary for death and burial date/place, as well as any children's names. There is little reason to have 4 sources for a name.

Once again - these are just my opinions

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Thank you Rob,

I appreciate your input this is one way that we all help each other.

I like your idea about the picture will take it into one my programs and see what I can do with it.

I guess one thing I should do is read my posts before posting (parts did not show). This is only phase one where I put in what I can find; i.e. the articles. the parent info if a spouse that married into the family, and pictures that I have.  

I have a fellow Wikitreer who helps me do my profiles. We are in different time zones and she will be doing her thing which is writing the narrative and adding the captions to the articles as you suggested. I mark the source on the images.  She is really good with that and I am learning from her how to do them. I am just not confident enough yet. That is phase two.

With the sources I am unsure how to proceed. These are gedcom imports though on the ones I adopted or created I do only have one source for each as you said. I get  nervous messing with the sources but am willing to learn.

the dividers are two fold they are markers for my fellow collaborator and for me breaking the profile into sections. I am unsure how many phases we go through before we actually are satisfied with the profile being the best we can make it. With some we reduce the amount of dividers used.

Again I appreciated your input.

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Nice projile :)