Book Progress

I believe I have finally researched most of Aaron Davis' descendants in my tree on Ancestry.com.  As time allows, I will attempt to update the Aaron Davis chapter of the book.  Once that is done I will share a link, seeking your help with comments, corrections, etc.

I have also been updating other sections of the book as time has permitted.  My plan is to go back through each chapter, adding major reference citations to the descendants lists, and reviewing the 1900 and 1910 Census records for any wives who were alive at that time.  The intent of the latter will be to see how many of the surviving children have been identified (since some are nearly always obscured by the lack of an 1890 Census).  As that work is completed, I will send out links for each chapter, again with the intent to get your feedback.

Once all of that is done, I will publish a final draft for any final corrections or comments.  During that time I will create the book's index and document all of the descendant surnames, which will be listed on the title page.  Indexing will be incredibly time consuming, and is best not started until most of the final edits have been done.

If anyone is hanging on to information that might be incorporated into the book, now would be a good time to forward that to me.  Send me an e-mail or contact me through the blog's contact form and I can provide an address where we will be residing periodically during this winter.

Since I don't intend to charge for the book, I can't offer to pay anyone for their help.  But I will be certain to credit your contributions in the book's front matter.

If, once the final PDF is published, there is sufficient interest in purchasing hard copies, I might consider doing so as a fund raising effort to pay for copies to be donated to regional libraries.  But the book will be formatted such that it can easily be reproduced at your local copy store or on your home printer.