Storage for information listing earlier settlers to areas?

Question

Is there a place set aside where we can place information we have like the earliest settlers to an area? I have a few ancestors that I have information on like that because they settled near each other.

I want to make plain in my tree that my ancestors knew and worked together to build communities. That they gave what they had in skills and labor to secure the families and held barn raising to build and then log rollings that evening to relax and enjoy.

Things like in my Grandma's Journal where she says at Christmas the community all took a turn holding Christmas dinner at their house so that you ate with your neighbors and they came and ate with you the next night. Sharing and fellowshiping and building our foundation together.

These sort of traditions are not part of what most people can find on their families and I don't want to write a book for my grandfather so.....what to do? That's my question. Where on Wiketree can I store this?

Answer 1

Hi Gigi,
 

It sounds like you might like to make a Freespace Page.

Check out this one I am making for my home town...

Founding Fathers of St. Albans Vermont

Would that work for you?

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...and here is another that I have been gradually working on for our family farm:

The Hathaway's of Hathaway Point

 

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Wow I don't have anything like that but it might be a project I would want to take on for my area when I get all my ancestors put into my wikitree. You have been busy your pages look nice.

I find myself in an unusual position with great grandparents born in the 1850's so I have a lot of information my Grandmother who was born in 1888 and died in 1994 passed on to me. Yes! You read that right she was 106 when she died.

I just want to perserve those traditions and community things that she passed to us so that they are not lost.

Maybe I could do one and just call it something like Early Settlers and Traditions of......

Thanks for taking a moment to answer my question.

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106 years is amazing!  You are lucky to have had such a relationship and to have information of that value to share.  We are lucky you are sharing it. Future generations will be ever grateful. Thank you!

Freespace Pages are very flexible.  You can call it anything you wish.  As I'm sure you saw on the link above they could be for a place, an item, a story, almost anything.

The more links it has and the larger demographic you appeal to, the more views the page will get.  It will be more likely to show up in google searches and more likely to be looked at by people catching words that pertain to thier quest.

I'm sure you have plenty of ideas brewing already, but i'll share one...

You could create a page with the name being something like what you wrote above.  Then you gradually add something to it: Pictures.  An introductory paragraph.  A heading something like "Grandmother's Journal", where you could explain about it, link to her profile, put a link to pictures of the journal, and links to the profiles of others she mentions in the journal weather they are your relative or not.  You could link to the governor if she said something about him/her.

At any time you could add another heading like "Traditions in the Town of X" and do the same kind of stuff.

You can edit or change any of it at any time so it's stress free.

I personally have not regretted taking on my project and look forward to the large investments in it still to go.  It has already taught me a great deal and helped to solve family mysteries that I certainly never would have discovered answers to otherwise.

It's very user-friendly and the help pages explain it all so I'm sure you will have no trouble, but if you have any questions about it or wish any help you can post here or contact me at any time.

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...Sorry, I should have mentioned:

Don't feel you have to get every person's profile created before making a coherent Freespace Page.  You can just type the names and don't worry about it.  Then whenever you want you can just replace the text for thier name with a link to their profile.  It all reads well to the viewer and takes all pressure off you.

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Thanks for answering and for the idea. I laughed because as a matter of fact she had a cousin who was Govonor of Mississippi in the 1960's who she does mention. I have some awesome ancestors. From Ethelbert Barksdale to Gov J. P. Coleman of MS. And that is just one branch out of eight.

I have a couple of people waiting to help me source these as I never bothered to source anyone but main ancestors. You know online resources have grown tremendously and walls fall for many of us everyday so now it is inportant to get those sources added. So, I am sort of hurrying to add the people I have documented and then want to "go back through" and make sure they have sources that can be accessed by anyone. I know it says it's a work in progress and it surely is so I am getting them put in and letting those behind the scene help "flesh" them out for me.  :)