[bksvol-discuss] Re: Family trees in children's books
- From: Valerie Maples <vlmaples@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 11:57:45 -0800 (PST)
Thanks, Cindy! It was overwhelming to think of looking at the totality of it,
so I kind of tried to look at it as columns and then last the column
relationships. It was a thought provoking exercise.
Valerie
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From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sat, January 21, 2012 5:16:53 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Family trees in children's books
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:
>
>
>[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
>
>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.
>
>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.
>
>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
>
>
>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.
>
>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.
>
>Judy s.
>
>Valerie Maples wrote:
>Hey, folks!
>>
>>
>>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.
>>
>>
>>Suggestions greatly appreciated!
>>
Valerie
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