[bksvol-discuss] Re: Family trees in children's books
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 03:16:53 -0800 (PST)
imo you did a fine job.
Cindy
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> From: Valerie Maples <vlmaples@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 9:29 AM
>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Family trees in children's books
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>Please let me know how my final description was. I ended up with this:
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>[image: Family tree showing five generations with parents Daniel
and Patience as parents at the top. They had two daughters, Martha and Ruth.
Following Martha's side, she had a daughter, Patience, who had a son, Tom, who
had a daughter, Patience. The second sister, Ruth, had a daughter, Grace, who
had three daughters, Sarah (mom to Timothy and Priscilla), Susan (mom to
Sarah-Jane) and Jane (mom to Titus). This chart shows that second Patience and
Grace are first cousins, Tom is a second cousin to Sarah, Susan, and Jane, and
the third Patience is a third cousin to Timothy, Priscilla, Sarah-Jane, and
Titus.]
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>Is that understandable? Valerie
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>Keep up with Nichole's recovery:
>http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/nicholemaples
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>From: Judy s. <cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Sent: Thu, January 19, 2012 2:12:41 PM
>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Family trees in children's books
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>One way I've used successfully is
to take each parent, and then do two ancestor charts, one for the
mother and one for the father that are at the 'start' of the family,
using the technique I came up with to describe pedigrees and ancestor
charts for Bookshare. smile.
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>Since I used the mathematical models invented to describe the
"pedigrees" of royalty (can you believe there's an entire area of
research devoted to that? grin) it works well for describing family
trees, as long as you break them this way into what are really 'lineage
pedigrees' or ancestor charts.
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>Here's a link to the page in the volunteer manual on how to describe
pedigrees.
>https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/4.8+A.+Creating+written+descriptions+of+Pedigree+and+Ancestor+Charts
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>If you need any help with it, email me or give me a call and we'll see
if we can figure it out together.
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>I'd better throw in a caveat here, although it doesn't apply to
Valerie. smile. The page and the technique are designed for sighted
volunteers. So, don't waste your time reading this page in the
volunteer manual unless you're sighted. It needs sight to use the
technique because you have to look at an image of a specialized kind of
graph in order to turn it into an easy-to-understand written
description of the information in the graph.
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>Judy s.
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>Valerie Maples wrote:
>Hey, folks!
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>>I have a short children's chapter book (about 70 pages) with a
portion of a five generation family tree (through third cousins of two
sisters from same parents) and I have no idea how to describe or
annotate it since it is a young reader's book.
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>>Suggestions greatly appreciated!
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Valerie
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