A publisher Teddupuie
A family newsletter publisher with complaints!
A family newsletter publisher
Somehow the world in general seems
to think that if you are a family newsletter publisher, you can be ignored in
the publishing sector by the "real publishers" and ignored by the
family to boot. Yes, I have complaints! I have spent hundreds of hours searching
for family on the internet, just to keep my family up to date on any findings I
may run across that may pertain to "their family". Notice the
quotation marks. Take heed of the difference between their family and mine. I
never knew there was a difference until I started a flunky little newsletter
that was designed to help everyone's grandchildren a hundred years from now.
Family genealogy
It all started when I did a search,
looking for my family heritage, in hopes of getting a family reunion together
someday. An annual family reunion so eventually the grandchildren of my
relatives wouldn't have to wonder who they were related to, like I wonder today.
My family tree is a mess. My father's parents divorced when he was very small,
and he never even met his real father until the old man was on his deathbed.
One, and only one meeting of father and son. My father was raised hundreds of
miles from where we were raised, and we moved a lot. My mother's family was
small and she was raised many miles from where she was born. Both of my
grandfathers died before I was born. And then there is the spelling of the names
to throw the wrench into the fan. It was frustrating, just trying to find out
who I should be looking for. So I turned to my immediate family for all the
information I would need to start the first family newsletter, and become a
publisher. I chose the name Teddupuie, and will tell you more about that on
another page.
Family help
I pieced together information, and
posted queries in genealogy forums, hoping to find as much info as possible. I
received e-mail from cousins wanting to trade info, and found that most didn't
publish this information in the genealogy forums, thus making it harder for the
next relative of ours to do the same thing we were doing. I found that strange,
but after a while, realized it was also standard. It stinks!!!! How selfish can
a person be to keep family info from their own family? Up until then, the
thought of becoming a publisher of a family newsletter had never entered my
mind, and the name Sequoyah, was an Indian I was trying to place in a western
story I was piecing together. The family genealogy took over all my spare time
and I found myself putting in 60 hours a week doing family research with very
little help from outside. Mostly, I had all kinds of people asking me to send
them info, with the promise they would then return the favor. What a crock of
bull! Everyone wants to be a professional genealogist. Oh well.
Strangers searching for family
Like I said, I wasn't a publisher,
but I managed to meet a lot of people publishing anything they could about their
family. In the middle of my trials and tribulations, I met a woman from a
thousand miles away that had been searching for her great grandfather, and she
was pretty sure that she had info on my great grandmother. It turns out that her
great grandfather and mine have the same name, so while she was doing her
research, she happened across this info. She sent me an enormous file that
covers a time period from before George Washington was born to the time my
grandfather was born. Another stranger
filled in my other great grandmother's history with 84 pages of family. So far,
I had collected a half page of history from my relatives, and that was one story
about one person. This had taken six months.
Publisher of a newsletter
I had a lot of info in writing,
with hundreds of names, dates and places that I thought any relative would love
to save for historical reasons. I started by collecting snail mail addresses so
I could mail the info to my relatives. That's when I got blocked by this weird
phenomena I can only think of as "their family". I get people saying
things like "I don't really have any use for a family newsletter right now,
so I don't see the point in giving you my address. And I don't think it would be
right for me to give you my sisters' addresses, because that would be up to them
if they would like that kind of information disclosed. I will ask them, and get
back to you via e-mail, and let you know the results of our conversation."
Of course, they never get back to me, so I'm still searching for family. Most of
my relatives don't even tell me if they have children or give me birth dates.
All I wanted to do was send them my latest findings twice a year, and an
invitation to a family reunion, to be included in one of those two envelopes. As a
publisher of a family newsletter, I have learned much about patience. And more
about family, than I could have ever believed possible.
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complaints of a publisher
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