Monday, May 17, 2004

One for Roy Stockdill . an open letter

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Dear Roy !


I wish I could get you to make a quick and nasty web page using Family Tree Maker 11
and its auto publish function by filling in forms

Self publishing is the way to go

and it is so easy to do on the web
it will cost your £29 for a single CD in a flat pack
from the usual suppliers
and about one hours work assuming you have a gedcom to import

I have just done a stint as a transcriber with FreeBMD
and I call it learning how the other people live.
increasing my knowledge of genealogy today by doing these things
as a volunteer

It will all give you something else for you to polemicize about - with authority based on knowledge not hear say

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ROY

I think you should join the blogworld
I find I am upt o 150 000 words - with very much quoted text
and over 3000 links

Several books have turned up as spin off from bloggs and the latest news is a film contract based on
http://dear_raed.blogspot.com/
Hooray for Bloggywood http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/3707111.stm


my own blog http://hughw36.blogspot.com/
has in the side bar links to the web pages I manage

my policy in blogging was to force myself to write every day
I am also creating a corpus - a body of text - which I can mine for a book or two in the future

as you could your own reportings to build your 3 volume autobiography

I)
early years of a Watford Yorky
II)
cheque book journalist - doing the Liberace
III)
All at sea in genealogy



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and for Roy in the thunder box

3)

the message board web space could also do with your acid pen

sniping at ancestry where they never read it is a waste of time

ancestry staffers read


Boards > Topics > Ancestry.com > United Kingdom and Ireland


about the dot co uk site (a)


and about the dot com site (b)

Boards > Topics > Ancestry.com > Ancestry Site Comments


the more senior staff have a my family inc email address

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Welcome to the Ancestry.com United Kingdom and Ireland Board

We set up this message board to help gather comments about the United Kingdom and Ireland Collection on Ancestry.com.
We hope you will use it to make comments that range from content errors to usability of the viewer/searches - all welcome.
We hope to continually improve this collection and we will look to this board to help us in that work.

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Welcome to the Ancestry Site Comments Board

We have set up this message board to allow more discussions about the web site Ancestry.com.
We will look here for enhancement requests, feedback on new site features, comments on new data postings, and occasionally ask for your feedback on features that will be coming soon to the web site. We hope to read all messages weekly and work together with you to make Ancestry.com a better service.



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Roy - I'm covering my ears !


4)
what do you think about this :-

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NEW U.K. AND IRELAND RECORDS COLLECTION DATABASE
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YORKSHIRE: ADEL PARISH REGISTER, 1606-1812 (Images online)

This database contains a transcription of the parish registers of
Adel in Yorkshire from 1606 to 1812. Parish registers are comprised
of baptismal, marriage, and burial records. Baptismal records
generally list the date of the baptism, the name of the child being
baptized, and the name of the father. Marriage records generally
include the date of the marriage and the names of the bride and
groom. Burial records generally list the date of the burial and the
name of the deceased individual. Occasionally burial records will
include other bits of information such as where the individual was
from or if they were widowed. Parish records can be wonderful sources
of genealogical information. They become increasingly valuable when
civil vital records are either inaccessible or nonexistent.

Source Information: Ancestry.co.uk. "Yorkshire: Adel Parish Register,
1606-1812" [database online]. Provo, Utah: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2004.
Original data: Lumb, George Denison, ed. "The Registers of the Parish
Church of Adel, in the County of York, from 1606 to 1812; and
Monumental Inscriptions." Leeds: Thoresby Society, 1895.

Ancestry.com subscribers with access to the U.K. and Ireland Records
Collection can search this database at:
http://www.ancestry.com/rd/prodredir.asp?sourceid=4717&key=D7997


have a good summer !

regards

Hugh

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