User talk:Sketchdon

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Date Conventions [22 March 2013]

Hello Sketchdon - Hope you are well. I am glad to see some activity on some of our common pages again and I look forward to seeing the information flow. I noticed that you had begun to change some of the date formats and before you got too far into it, I just wanted to give you a heads up that to the best of my knowledge, werelate wants us to stick to a standard date format of DD MMM YYYY (ex. 12 Dec 1838) with the 3 letter abbreviation for the month. There was a lot of back and forth about it several years ago, but I think they finally settled on that convention (see Date Conventions ) ... Now, if it is any consolation, in revisiting the Date Conventions page, I see that I have been entering all of my Bef and Aft qualifiers incorrectly myself by not capitalizing the first letter. I have been doing that for a long time now, so who knows if it will ever get all cleaned up? :) - Best Wishes!--Cos1776 13:57, 15 March 2013 (EDT)

Hello! Yes... I've been working on a few things again with this line. I've had a lot of distractions lately with a new baby boy and a relative's estate to dispose of, but I'm back to making a few more updates. I recently hired a genealogist in Germany to do some archive work on the Kautz-Mueller line and I plan to have him do some stuff on Wehage and maybe Ayd later this year. He located six more generations of Kautzes, back to around 1620, all in the same village, so I'm ecstatic. My wife will be too.. it's her line, but this is either a birthday or Christmas present for her. LOL! Anyway, I'm a bit anal about spelling out the months so I guess I didn't realize WeRelate preferred the abbreviations. Sorry about that. I'll remember that as I'm putting in more details. Don--Sketchdon 14:06, 15 March 2013 (EDT)

I have let the days get away from me and I am late in replying to you to wish you a most hearty CONGRATULATIONS on the birth of your baby boy! How wonderful! It is also exciting to hear about the possibility of more German information to come. If I recall correctly, one of the cousins did something similar a year or two ago for the Ayds, but come to think of it, I never did hear the results. I will touch base with him again and get back to you. Take Care. --Cos1776 09:17, 22 March 2013 (EDT)

Latest whirlwind of changes to Ayd(t) pages [4 September 2013]

Hi Sketchdon - My inbox is full of emails notifying me of all of the changes that you have been making to the Ayd(t) pages. At first I was very happy to think that some new research was being presented, but as I have been going through the pages and looking at the changes that you have been making, I am getting a little distressed... :) I was very careful to include as much source information as I could for those folks and I tried to back up most all assertions in dates and places with cited records. You are making a lot of changes to this information and are not providing the citations to back it up. Sometimes your changes are going against what was already cited on the page, but you are not providing an explanation for why the new "fact" is more appropriate. If I have jumped the gun on this and you have just not gotten around to entering all of your sources yet for all of the different pages, I apologize, but right now it is somewhat confusing to have my old citation now citing your "new" fact that no longer matches the citation...
Can you fill me in? Respectfully, --Cos1776 15:04, 3 September 2013 (EDT)

Didn't mean to make you panic. :-)

I had some free time at work this afternoon and realized I had my updated chart with me so I just wanted to get some of the new dates and info in. The PDFs from the research I got from Germany were in my home email so I didn't have access to any of the actual source info. I do have it and I will be putting it in as well.

My researcher will be in Northern Germany at the end of the month to see what he can find on the Wehage line.

Don--Sketchdon 22:35, 3 September 2013 (EDT)

You hit the nail on the head. I was beginning to panic. I should have trusted you and giving you some more time before reacting as your previous contributions have always been top notch. Please do accept my apology. I think that one of my fears with this wiki environment is that a lot of good work can so easily be undone. I guess you takes the good and the bad ... Or however that saying goes...

BTW - I agree with your decision to formerly attach RJ to the parents of the baptism record. I suppose you could say that we have the same amount of proof for the other siblings as we do for him so why not? And I'm loving the little tidbit about his dad being an innkeeper and mayor. That dude populated half the village. --Cos1776 07:14, 4 September 2013 (EDT)