Blanche of Artois - Curator: FMG link

Started by Private User on Saturday, April 29, 2023
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It is so amazing to see such things. That site is literally full of my ethnicities, my ancestors, my other family. I don't see anything in the side menu that doesn't pertain to me, just scanning through up an down and all around. I would have to dig to see who may not have been blood relatives. Is that a personal project page or from a site?

FMG is an acronym for "The Foundation for Medieval Genealogy" based in the UK. It take time to get used to navigating the site. The website content creators don't appreciate people doing copy-and-paste jobs to other websites, so they occasionally give webpages new titles with new URLs—doing away with URLs too.

Here are two links worth saving as browser Bookmarks:–

1. General Index of Places: https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/CONTENTS.htm — These pages are lengthy! Make use of your browser's search function.

2. FMG search function to look for specific persons: https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/Search.htm

If you want to share a URL that leads directly to specific persons, you may need to click hyperlinks of parents / spouses first—then click hyperlinks back to persons whose URLs you want to share.

Thank you my 18th cousin - very interesting 👍

Good description of the site, Ken.
I think the FMG links change because FMG is being constantly updated with new sources, so the positions of the people's names change, not because they object to being cited. I've checked with Cawley that he's okay with us citing him, and he assures me he is.

Yes, Sharon, with 'citation' being the key word.
As some of us well know, there are Geni person-profiles with entire familial lineages copied and pasted into multiple family profile Overviews without being stripping massive transfers down to what's pertinent for each one. Too much quoted copy-and-paste matter in academia is taboo. Thus, I find this manner objectionable, and I think Cawley would agree.

Ken -I take your point. I have 5 post-grad degrees, so I know how academia works. In this case Cawley sees himself as a repository of primary sources. I have communicated with him personally before using him like this - and he knows exactly what I'm doing on GEni - I made sure of this.
I recognise and am sorry you don't like it, but the Geni medieval tree is exceptionally prone to people changing without reference to primary sources - and I find it important to be able to make quick references to the ones we used when I'm having to do it on a daily basis. The dynamic and changing nature of FMG means that links lose specificity relatively quickly.
We'll have to agree to disagree on this issue.

Okay, Sharon. Point taken. Like me, you know the academia drill. Unlike me, you've had the pleasure of interacting more with Cawley that I have. I sent him two sources so two missing children can be added to his ongoing Medlands project.

That's fantastic. He's good with engaging and updating - and I have the greatest respect for his vision of what he's doing.

Anyway, PS - if you're ever on a Geni profile and want to help truncate a long block of text into just surrounding family names leaving detailed sources for only that particular profile - I am always grateful for the help.

Once I've gone through a family line removing bogus connections and locking in the sourced relationships that are in the text I've added to guide me, I've usually used 5 or more hours and the time to go back and edit specifically on each one is another 5 hours. I typically wait until I'm working on that profile again to do that - and that can be years.
If it's irritating you, please know I'd be nothing but delighted if you edited - as long as we've kept the surrounding relationship names and the primary texts for that specific profile (for when someone accidentally mismerges the profile in the future and there needs to be a cleanup that doesn't rely on us reinventing the whole Sisyphus wheel.)

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