R U Stil/lwell? is the official quarterly newsletter for Stil/lwell Family Genealogical Research. Since 2002, the newsletter has been the source for accurate, well-documented Stil/lwell family history and genealogy. Individual issues average twenty-four pages and typically include information about the member news, research and computer tips, interesting and informative articles, Stil/lwell records and data from around the world, and queries. Family theories and speculation are also and important part of the newsletter, thinking outside of the box can often send researchers in a new direction.

Submissions of material for publication in the R U Stil/lwell? Newsletter are always welcome. We request that you cite your sources and give proper credit where due. We reserve the right to edit all material submitted for publication. Publication dates are by January 21, April 21, July 21, and October 21.

Submissions may be sent as electronic attachments to:

rustil2@rustillwell.com

or mailed to:

Susan Lafo or Barbara Boyer
P. O. Box 1755
Spring Valley, CA 91978

 Contributing to R U Stil/lwell? Newsletter?

Thanks to the contributions of many of our members, we have a wonderfully informative newsletter. However, if we are to keep to this standard, and further our mission to collect, preserve and disseminate Stil/lwell data, the newsletter will need continuing member support. If you haven't yet sent your research findings to R U Stil/lwell? Newsletter, consider doing so. By publishing your data, you assure that it will be available to future researchers of your line of Stil/lwells, and you will be assuring that our newsletter remains a good one.

Future Issues

It is important for us to remember the Stil/lwell daughters' lines. In collecting data about non-surnamed Stil/lwell lines, members are asked to submit material dealing with the descending lines of Stil/lwell daughters and the families from which Stil/lwell wives descend. If you have stories, documents, or genealogical information send them along to the editors.

Also, if you have areas of interest you'd like the newsletter to address, let the editors know. The editor also welcomes opinions, comments, additions, corrections or clarifications of material printed in the Newsletter.

Send your queries to R U Stil/lwell? Newsletter as well as to Internet lists. Your areas of interest in Stil/lwell research will then become a matter of record, available to those who read the newsletter in future years.

Of course, continue to send copies of Stil/lwell data, gathered while searching your own line, found in printed material in local libraries or amongst family papers and Bibles, or found in library surname files. These might not help in your own research, but may very well contain a clue to help another member scale an encountered blank wall. Always give complete references (author, title, page numbers, publisher), and quote exactly. Citing where you found the documentation (library, genealogical society, county court house, etc.) might also be helpful to readers. You might like to just photocopy the material - always the most accurate way to transmit material - but be sure to send the source information and your name when you send photocopies. Write this on the back of the copies.

Writing Up Your Research

When you submit your research, remember that everyone is not as familiar as you are with the Stil/lwell line being discussed. It is important to give a brief overview with enough information to help the reader understand the paper. Cite references here - to other Stil/lwell articles, to specific documents such as deeds, wills, etc. Quote these if this will make the article clearer, or, if a supporting document has not been published in R U Stil/lwell before, send a copy of it (never send original documents, of course.)

Submission of Photographs

Try to send clear photographs with the main image in focus and with good contrast, light to dark, and of an appropriate size to appear in the magazine. If a photocopy must be sent, ask your copy center for a master quality image, and check to see how it prints. You might wish to have a photo copied in a photo shop. This will make the best master if the copy is in focus, not too dark, and on glossy paper. Scanning a photograph can also give a good quality photograph. Old newsprint pictures may still be usable if copied to provide the best image possible. Do your best to send clean copies of maps and other graphics.

Copyrighted Material

If you are using the words of another author verbatim, quoting exactly, you must put them in quotes or indent them, and give proper acknowledgment. If you paraphrase information from someone's research, this should also be acknowledged, even if it is not quoted exactly or set apart. You may either acknowledge in a footnote or within the text.

If you're sending a photocopy of an preprinted article, give the editor as much information as possible so that the author or publisher can be contacted to acquire written permission to reprint in our publication.

Historical material reprinted by a reprint house, such as Genealogical Publishing Company in Baltimore, may require permission to print, so give us the name, date, and whatever address of the reprint house that's shown in the publication as well as the original source and date.

Material from a website should be so designated, giving the URL or “address” where found. If there is a statement about using the material, copy this out and send it along. An example is that the “Missing Links,” of the Rootsweb Review has its “Permission to Reprint” statement at the back of each issue, and shows how the acknowledgment should be written. If you get permission to quote material, send a copy to us or give us a reference to check.

If you have any questions about the right to copy, for an overview of the copyright law visit: http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/copyright.html

In an effort to standardize within each issue of the newsletter, a few editing standards have been adopted. When necessary, the editors will edit stories to fit within the constrains of the Newsletter's format and margins. The editors disgression will be used when necessary.

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2 April, 2004

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