TIP # 1. The best way to submit genealogical information about Bucklins is by a GEDCOM  electronic file or disk.  That way the information can be added promptly and efficiently.  (The Joseph Bucklin Society has no paid employees, and the time to enter material submitted by paper simply often does not exist for months after your submission.) If your genealogy software allows export of a GEDCOM, please submit it.   Click here for instructions on sending a GEDCOM. 

Can I submit my Bucklin Data that is not on a computer genealogy program? Yes!   Send your genealogical information in any way you can.  If you cannot submit GEDCOM files,  a document in Word format would be helpful, or even some informal handwritten notes. Just give us information and let us worry about organizing it. Members especially are encouraged to submit stories, articles and photographs regarding Bucklin lineage for publication in the newsletter (all photographs are scanned and returned to you). Non-members may also submit information.

TIP # 2. Give some source for your information for each birth and death. The source is the document or resource where you found the information. For example, if you found marriage information in a church register, type the name of this document in this field.

When you submit family history material to us, we need to know the source of the information.   That is the only way that scholars can evaluate conflicting information. Be sure to include a "source" for every birth and death.  You may not have anything more for a source than one of the following, and if so, use the following source citations:

            Report by person himself/herself
            Report by spouse or child
            Report by 3rd or 4th generation
            Notes written by __________ in possession of ____________.
            General family knowledge.

It is best if you can enter a written source for your information, but be specific. For example, if your information comes from a family bible you have found, and you just enter "Family bible" in the "Title of source" field, someone other than you cannot  tell the difference between your mother's bible and your cousin's bible as the source. So your source titles for names of common items should look more like this: " Family bible  for Jane Smith."  But, of course, if you have an official document or a printed source, that is better and should be used as the source when you enter the source of your information.

TIP # 3. For every person who has died, enter something (at least a "?" or "unknown date" ) as the date of death. 

If you leave a blank for the date of a death, the computer programs we use do not print a record of the person as dead -- because  the computer's standard way to treat an undated event is to mark it it as an event that has not yet happened.   Because we do not publish data on living persons,  you will not see anything published on your great great great grandfather unless you indicate something in the date blank for the date of death.  So enter "?" , or some year date, for the date of death.