Libeau Family Book Update

Last updated 12 December 2024.

Overview

We are working on an update to The Libeau Family of Banks Peninsula, last revised in 2012.

The former publisher Evagean Software has discontinued support for the current book. Unfortunately, Evagean has declined to return the book content in electronic form, so we have no option but to re-create all of the content by hand.

The broad outline of our plan is in three phases:

  1. Digitise the 2012 book (tree structure, biographies, and photos)
  2. Update the digitised content to correct errors and to add new people, by asking for submissions from family members.
  3. Publish the updated tree, biographies and photos in a new printed book. Also, publish parts of the tree online, while respecting privacy of living people.

The remainder of this page discusses these points in greater detail. If you would prefer to listen to the project summary, please open our Powerpoint presentation from the 2024 A.G.M.

Phase 1 - Digitise the 2012 book

Coordinator: Matt McNabb

This phase consists of converting the 2012 edition to an Ancestry.com private member tree.
This format has been chosen because:

  • it is free to use
  • people may be familiar with editing these trees already
  • the tree can be downloaded in GEDCOM format
  • most importantly, multiple people can work on it simultaneously

This tree will remain Private, i.e. not visible to the general public. It is only accessible by project volunteers.

Please contact the coordinator if you’re willing to do data entry via Ancestry.com (no cost involved).

Phase 2 - the Forever tree

Once the Phase 1 data entry is complete, we will create a copy called the Forever tree and begin applying updates.

  • Descendants may submit new information from the submissions page.
  • Photos are very welcome! The 2012 book photos are unfortunately not good enough quality to re-use.
  • Descendants may submit data in any format, we will sort it out.
  • Submissions (including Photos and Biographies) will be sorted and filed in our Google Drive, but not applied until Phase 1 is complete.
  • Submissions relating to deceased ancestors may be used to update WikiTree sooner.
  • Our membership secretary also maintains a list of known or suspected descendants who have not contacted the Society yet; we will approach them for contributions.

See also:

Phase 3 - Publishing

It is very much up for discussion what exactly we will publish and in what format. The Committee meetings and AGM will explore this topic: in 2024 and beyond, what do people want to have on their bookshelf and what do people want to have online? The size of the printed material is very much a consideration here; the 2012 book was already big, and the Forever tree will only continue to grow.

Other points

Privacy of Living People, and online publication

The Personal Data of living people - which includes their birth date, birth year, name, birth place, marriage place, spouse’s name - is protected by law in many countries including New Zealand. It is unethical - and may even be illegal - to publish data of living people who have not personally consented.

The 2012 book contains a lot of Personal Data of living people and we do not have evidence of who may have consented to their data being published. For example, contributors may have given details of their living relatives, including their children, without obtaining consent.

For this reason, we will not be publishing information about living people in a freely available online format. Online access will be restricted to project members.

PDF Copies of the 2012 book

This is now covered under the submission page.

2012 book miscellaneous errata

  • Google Doc link - a list of mistakes noticed while doing Phase 1 Data Entry. This list excludes corrections that are part of descendant submissions.