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Thank you for visiting my web site. I appreciate your taking the time to add to our knowledge base of the Rosenkrans family. You can contact me on the form below, which will be automatically sent to my e-mail address.

I am no longer planning to update Allen's book by incorporating information sent to me by visitors to my site. Instead, I recommend that you post your information and/or queries on genforum.genealogy.com. That site will undoubtedly be around longer than I will. I recently turned 70, and my energy level is not what it used to be. Harmon's descendents now number in the thousands, and I have no estimate of how many family lines besides Harmon's exist, much less how many descendents they have contributed to the overall number.

Not only are there a huge number of entries to deal with, but there has not been a heavy response in comparison with the number of entries that would be needed to bring Allen's book up to date. So I question whether there is enough interest in this project anyway. The data to do this task has simply not been forthcoming.

I am still interested in hearing from you, especially (but not limited to) the following areas:

Suggestions for improvement. What would improve this site and make it more useful to you?
Errors in Allen's book. This includes spelling of names as well as factual misinformation. Be sure to be able to justify your corrections with good references. I tried to keep Allen's prose intact, even though by today's standards his sentences are too long. There were a few spelling errors that I did correct. I did insert punctuation when I thought that it would improve the readability. I broke the book into chapters. I also brought the formatting up to date.
Extensions of the book. Look at the guidelines below. If you have additional information not included in Allen's book that falls within these guidelines below, it could be included. Examples are: missing or corrected dates, additional children, etc. Again, you must include references to the source(s) of your information.
Continuation of Allen's book after 1900. OK, I lied. I will include updates that bring the various lines up to the present provided that:
- you do the write-up in final form following the guidelines below,
- you provide complete references to everything in your write-up,
- you post the graphics elsewhere and provide a URL to those graphics. Text does not take up a lot of space but graphics do, and
- again, good references are necessary.
I have to tell you that no one has done this yet. I have incorporated my own line, which begins with my grandfather and ends with my granddaughter. You can use this as an example of what you need to do. This can be seen on the site, but not included in the download version. My grandfather is number 832 in Allen's book; follow the links from there..
Mirror site. If you are interested in providing space on your site to host an exact copy of this site, please let me know. Although Allen's book is not copyrighted, this site is. We can discuss this more fully.
Carry it on. You cannot study your family's genealogy without becoming aware that someday you too will at best become a set of dry statistics in a musty old book (even if it is electronic) in the archives of some backwater library (or some obscure Internet site.) So I would like to hear from someone younger who would be interested in, and is able to maintain and keep this site alive long after I'm gone. My parents died just short of their 91st birthdays, so if genetics is any guide, this hand-off will probably not occur in the near future. But a long collaboration would make for a smooth transition.

Guidelines

Information to Include

The following information appears to be pretty standard for most of the entries in Allen's book:

Entries are limited to persons whose surname is Rosenkrans & variants thereof. This includes all women whose maiden name is/was Rosenkrans and variants. If available, links to their husbands' Web sites should be included.
Good references for everything. (Pass the blame for inaccuracies to someone else!)
Full Name, with all middle names spelled out.
Date and place of birth, date and place of death.
Where buried, or if cremated.
Education: schools and colleges, years attended, degrees received, outstanding scholastic achievements, honorary societies.
Work: long term jobs only, type, employer, location, interesting activities.
Religion and church(es,) positions held.
Marriage: to whom, spouse's parents, and dates & places of birth/death of each. Links only to other families.
Names, dates, and place of birth of children.
Major, long-term residences (city, state & country only.)
Organizations and societies..
Personal interests and hobbies. This is not standard, but I feel that it gives the subject a little more depth as a person.
One photograph of the individual, preferably with the spouse and children. Females should include their husbands and children when possible. No residences. If known, include the date the picture was taken. Please put this on your own site and provide a URL to it
I will provide a link to your site which may provide any information, graphics, etc., about the individual that you wish to, but which is beyond the scope of what I am publishing here.
I will provide source credit for anyone who desires it for any information published here. This may include, at your option:
- Total anonymity (default.)
- A description (e.g., "relative," "offspring", "personal friend," etc.)
- Your name
- Contact information (e-mail address, street address, phone number, etc.)

This information should be written up in a tight narrative style, using Allen's book as a guide. I reserve the right to edit the information as necessary to fit the publication guidelines given above (which may vary over time) and writing style.