Projects of the AFT Group
Group Codes
1FI Find Information
2EN Enter Information
3RC Reconcile Information
5 AD Administration
6WD Website & Database
7TV Training & Volunteers
9MS Marketing & Social Media
| Code | Status | Project Name | Task | Estimated Time | Skills | Volunteers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1FI | in progress | 004 Find original certificates for birth, death and marriage, Europe | Find original certificates for birth, death and marriage in European databases | 360 hours | German Handwriting, High Research Skills | Cathy |
| 1FI | in progress | 005 Find original certificates for birth, death and marriage, USA | Find original certificates for birth, death and marriage in US databases | 180 hours | English Handwriting, High Research Skills | Cathy |
| 1FI | pending | 003 Find and enter Iowa obituaries into database | We can find a lot of newer Amana related obituaries on the different Iowa county websites of the IAGenWeb Project. Most of them are from about 2005 and later. Go through our database, find those obituaries and enter them. | 60 hours | English Medium Research Skills | |
| 1FI | pending | 008 Extract information from Hoehnle publications | The magister thesis, the dissertation and other publications of Peter Hoehnle contain a lot of biographical and important background information. Read the publications and enter relevant information into database. | 180 hours | Medium Research Skills | |
| 1FI | pending | 015 Extract information from unprinted volumes of Inspirations Historie | The Amana museum has 5 binders of mostly typed scripts of the History which never made it into print. They cover the years 1924 to 1936 (?). Read and enter the information into AFT-database. | 180 hours | some German Handwriting, German Typoscript High Research Skills | |
| 1FI | pending | 017 Collect information from the Amana Bulletin and enter it into database | The museum has a collection of all bulletins. Some (or all?) are visible online, behind a pay wall. | 360 hours | English & German Print | |
| 2EN | pending | 002 Enter list of members who left EE | Enter all individuals from S281 "Verzeichnis der von der Gemeinde der wahren Inspiration zu Eben Ezer N.Y. abgegangenen Glieder" into database | 60 hours | German Handwriting, Low Research Skills | Lothar |
| 2EN | pending | 006 Enter original certificates for birth, death and marriage | Enter the results of projects 004 and 005 into AFT-database | 540 hours | German & English Handwriting, High Research Skills | Lothar |
| 3RC | in progress | 001 Enter open Individuals from Inspirationists' Arrivals | There are a few individuals who are listed in "Rehfuss, Inspirationists' Arrivals 1828-1928" but are NOT mentioned in "Schuhmacher/Koch". Find these people in the Arrival List and enter them into the website. Many of them can be found in S28 "List of the Members who left the EE Community of True Inspiration" | 30 hours | English Print, Low Research Skills | Jerry, Ann |
| 3RC | pending | 009 Reconcile lists of individuals buried in Amana cemeteries with AFT database | There are more individuals buried in the Amana cemeteries than we have in our database. Go through the data on IAGenWeb and on the AHS site and compare with AFT-database. Research and enter missing individuals. | 180 hours | Medium Research Skills | |
| 3RC | pending | 010 Reconcile 2 Death Registers with AFT database | There are 2 Death Registers (1962-1976; 1977-1999) which have to be checked against the AFT-database | 30 hours | Low research Skills, English Handwriting | |
| 3RC | pending | 011 Reconcile Death Register (1909-1936) with AFT database | Reconcile Death Register S1001 with AFT database | 30 hours | Low research Skills, English Handwriting | |
| 3RC | pending | 012 Reconcile Death Register (1937-1961 ) with AFT database | Reconcile Death Register S1002 with AFT database | 60 hours | Low research Skills, German Handwriting | |
| 3RC | pending | 013 Reconcile Death Register (1863-1908) with AFT database | Reconcile Death Register S1007 with AFT database | 120 hours | Low research Skills, German and English Handwriting | |
| 3RC | pending | 014 Reconcile Register (1856-1902) with AFT database | Reconcile Register S1006 (birth, death, marriage) with AFT-database | 120 hours | Low research Skills, German Handwriting | |
| 6WD | pending | 018 Write a AFT-user guide | Write and publish aAFT-user guide on the website | 120 hours | Lothar | |
| 6WD | pending | 019 Find a second AFT-administrator | The group needs a second administrator who has to be trained until summer 2021 | 120 hours | ||
| 6WD | pending | 007 Integrate AFT database with the Past Perfect System at AHS | This is a major project which would allow to store birth, death and other certificates and documents belonging to AFT individuals as jpgs in the AHS system | 180 hours | Database Skills | |
| 7TV | pending | 021 Training of volunteers | We have to train the volunteers for their specific jobs. | Lothar | ||
| 7TV | pending | 020 Find volunteers with specific skills | We have to find volunteers with specific skills like German language, database management, genealogical research, WordPress, TNG |