User talk:Lori 1959

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Naming PERSON and FAMILY pages [17 October 2007]

Hi, I'm an Administrator for WeRelate. Thank-you for contributing!

Just FYI: We believe that consistency probably makes the system easier to use. Therefore, in order to make it easier for other users to find your Person or Family pages, in the future, you may want to title your pages using the conventions described below:

For Person page titles on WeRelate, use only the first given name along with the complete surname of the person.

For Family page titles on WeRelate, use only the husband’s first given name and complete surname, followed by the word “and”, followed by the wife’s first given name and complete surname.

To illustrate, the title of a Person page for John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Jr. would be just "John Kennedy". Similarly, the title of Jack and Jackie’s Family page would be “John Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier”.

To explain, if they haven't run across them before, cousins searching for common ancestors might disregard an appropriate result of a search if it contains nicknames, or other names, even appropriate middle names, when they appear in the title of the page. If you have the middle name (or initial), when you edit the person page, please type the middle name (after a space) in the Given name field. Along these same lines, if a surname is spelled in multiple ways, the consistent approach is to use the most common variation as the surname when you create the title of the Person page, and then enter the other variations as alternate names when you edit the Person page. If the surname is sometimes spelled with just one “n”, please don't use parentheses (e.g., Ken(n)edy), because these marks make it difficult to index and categorize the name so that others can find it.

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--Ronni 12:21, 17 October 2007 (EDT)

Duplicates and living people [24 January 2012]

Hi Lori,

I'm Mary, one of the volunteer administrators for WeRelate. Thanks for joining and sharing your data.

I deleted some duplicate sets of parents and children today. It appears that this family group may all be living; if so, first names, and any dates or places should be removed. WeRelate has a policy against posting information on living persons except for the first name "Living," the surname, and the gender. We have this policy out of concerns for privacy and identity theft. If this is the case, please remove such identifying information and rename the pages according. Rename is a tab in the upper right portion of each Person and Family Page, then you also edit the first names to "Living" and strip out the dates and places.

Hope this helps--if you have any more questions, feel free to let me know.

Thank you, --Mary 13:20, 17 October 2007 (EDT)

Hello Lori,

My name is Julie Johnson, and I am helping my step-mother Eva (Erickson) Duncan Johnson work on her family's genealogy. I stumbled upon this cite, and it looks like you must be Lori Ann Williams, daughter of Robert Gordon Williams. Francis (Butch) Colby is also working on the family genealogy. This is just to let you know and hope that you get this message. As I find more information, I will add it to the site you have started. Do you have other documentation? If you respond, I will give you my e-mail and home address (in Minneapolis). Thank you. Julie--Juliej 17:43, 22 January 2012 (EST)

Julie

Hello yes I would be very interested in talking to you and Butch. I'm hitting so many road blocks with the Erickson and Olson side of the family its un believable. Here is my email address that you can write me at then i will give you my address and phone number. Write me at annielori_28@yahoo.com. Lori--Lori 1959 10:43, 24 January 2012 (EST)