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GENEALOGY
COMMITTEES
Members and friends doing genealogy research to uncover and document
the names of our ancestors from 3 generations after John Marriott,
Sr. on back in history is the major goal of the John Marriott Historical
Society. We hope to document this information with the facts, including
census, christening, birth, marriage, death, etc. records. Once
we have found and documented their names, we can search for family
histories, biographies, diaries, family bibles, photos, newspaper
articles, etc.
GENERAL CHAIR: Jackie Westergard
Family Genealogists Subcommittee
Mission
Assign an official amateur family genealogist for each of the 179
families in the first 3 generations after John Marriott, Sr.
Functions:
Our family genealogists will be our:
- Inquiry responders from genealogical research
questions
- Family record keepers of the official records for the first
3 generations after John Marriott Sr. of genealogical
research, with the responsibility of caring for and expanding
the
research notes and documents collection, along with the document
subcommittee.
- Coordinators of updates to LDS Ancestral and other Research
Data Files on the Marriott family.
Chair: Jackie Westergard and Hermoine Jex
Committee Members: positions open
Projects:
- To be determined.
Genealogy Research Projects Subcommittee
Mission
The society funds critical genealogical research projects for the
family and manages the family’s current official research
projects done by our amateur genealogists. The encouragement, training
and critical path planning for these projects comes from this subcommittee.
Functions:
- Manage the research projects jointly with the
Marriott Heritage Foundation in Marriott/Sladerville.
- Manage the research projects done by our family member,
Omen Tracy, where we hire him to do our work as a professional
genealogist.
Chair: position open
Committee Members: positions open
Projects:
- Find the connection that might exist to France to connect
to Marriott’s there.
- Digital preservation of original records, documents,
photos, etc. found by Hermoine Jex, now in her
home, to be put on
CD and in a JMHS bank vault with other records
and available to
members
on CD. Mike Wright has a scanner to use for JMHS
work- (Christine Watters & Mike Wright)
LDS Temple Work Subcommittee
Mission
John Marriott, himself, was the early family genealogist. He made
sure that his son John Marriott, Jr. had LDS temple work done
for the family in the Nauvoo and Salt Lake Temples and Endowment
House.
We wish to continue their work, by making sure that the excellent
genealogical records that helped us locate our ancestors are
used to do LDS temple work for those where the work is not complete.
Functions:
- Continue the work of Jackie Westergard to make
sure that all names that we have secured are presented to the LDS
Genealogy
Society and have their LDS temple work completed by society
members or
others. Check the LDS Ancestral and other Research Data
Files to see if LDS temple work has been done.
Chair: position open
Committee Members: positions open
Projects:
- To be determined.
Ancestors Lists Subcommittee
Mission
The web site does an excellent job of providing us ancestor lists.
We need to make sure they are complete for the targeted 3 generations
after John Marriott, Sr. This makes it easy for us amateurs to
find ancestor lists and study our family history. We need to
train each other in how to do this search.
Functions:
- To be determined.
Chair: position open
Committee Members: positions open
Projects:
- To be determined.
Descendents Lists Subcommittee
Mission
There are literally thousands of ancestors of John Marriott, Sr.
How many do you know?
Functions:
- Work with the Bath, Ohio company that produces
lists of families from the national phone books. This is a great
way to provide
us with connectivity to others we do not know who are
potential relatives.
I could also help us locate potential ancestor organizations
that we do not know of. It has listings of families like
the Marriott
and Burtons in the U.S. and other countries.
- Create and with our member communications subcommittee,
maintain our own list of ancestors (just a name, address,
phone and
email list- not a genealogical record or family history)
down to the
present, with the help of the Red Book and our 9/27/97
membership listing.
Chair: position open
Committee Members: positions open
Projects:
- To be determined.
Genealogy Training Subcommittee
Mission
Our history has shown that there may be 1 to 4 true professional
genealogists, like Omen Tracy and Jackie Westergard, in our family
tree. This is a challenging fact to realize, when genealogy is
the #1 goal of our society. Because of this reality, we must
not expect to depend on professional for the success of our work
and
reaching our goals. It will take a large number of amateurs like
you and me to make this work happen. We want to rely on help
from our resident pros, but also the growing genealogical organizations
throughout the country who are providing help through government
agencies and of course the largest source, which is the genealogical
library system of the LDS Church. We want to lean on these people
to train our members who want to “do the work”. Our
job is to be the connection to that training and provide what we
can ourselves.
Functions:
- Provide information on the website for genealogy
training for research.
- Connect through links to internet genealogy resources like
www.myfamily.com and www.ancestralsearch.com and organizations
like Everett Publishing
and their Handibook.
Chair: position available
Committee Members: positions available
Projects:
- To be determined.
Genealogy Tips Subcommittee
Mission
Because genealogical research is such a key piece of our society,
we fracture that topic many (maybe too many) ways. We envision
many youngsters and oldsters wanting to do some amateur research.
They don’t want to get too confused with the details and
don’t want to even think of becoming a genealogist or go
to training. For these people, we want to offer genealogy tips
in an easy to ready format that already exists from other organizations.
We don’t want to reinvent the wheel. The “stuff” is
already there. We just need to find it and put it on the website.
Functions:
- To be determined.
Chair: position available
Committee Members: positions available
Projects:
- To be determined.
Genealogy Research Questions Subcommittee
Mission
As our website become well know as a source of research information,
the Marriott’s and many other connected lines will use our
website as a resource to do their own work. We will receive many
genealogical research questions to try to link to our work for
the completion of their down-lines. We need people to respond to
those questions.
Functions:
- Provide a group of people who are familiar enough with our
family genealogy to respond by email or phone or letter
to inquiries that
come to the society.
- Set a process for inquiry responses, deadlines and format
recommendations.
- Determine those things we will not do and publish those
on the website.
Chair: position available
Committee Members: positions available
Projects:
- To be determined.
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