Hi Judy,
I got another email from someone telling me your links are broken! Have
they told you when they'll have the server up and running again?
I'll put a notice on the page telling people they are down. I should have
done it before now.
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Many coordinators are getting away from the county websites having queries. There are the Rootsweb mail list as well as message boards at GenForum and Ancestry which serve many for the queries. Having another location may end up hurting research than helping. My suggestion would be to place a general comment near the search engine that the coordinator receives a weekly message providing the names entered into the search engine and that the searcher should check the mail list for a response in a co
>I have to agree with you. I have been a volunteer for genealogy in
>Josephine county Oregon for 10 years. I have looked up hundreds of
>records, to help someone I did not know, that lived across the
>country. If I post it to rootweb it become theirs. I usually send it
>to the person private e-mail or snail mail to avoid the hassle
Sally in southern oregon
>My thoughts are some of postings and information we put in is being used now
>for sale---not proven does not seem to matter.
>Yes, but at some
My thoughts are some of postings and information we put in is being used now for sale---not proven does not seem to matter----Dick Cooper
-----Original Message-----
From: Deborah Piper
Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2008 4:27 AM
To: inspence@rootsweb.com
Subject: Re: [INSPENCE] INSPENCE Digest, Vol 3, Issue 30
When I started using Ancestry and Roots all was free....Then I get emails
saying all the info I had put on the sites was on a CD and I could BUY IT!
Deborah Ray Piper
Spencer Co., IN
allpiper@swindiana.n
Hi All, Just saw this... Check it out.
Free Access & New Records at Ancestry.com
From today May 20, through May 31, 2008, Ancestry.com is
offering free access to its U.S. Military Collection in celebration
of Memorial Day. And this is just part of a much larger announcement
of a new records digitization agreement between NARA and Ancestry.com.
Hi, Peggy,
I always have the feeling that it is the difference between those who are true researchers and those who simply want the fast answers and nothing else (no sweat involved). They simply peruse the internet, find something that seems to apply to their line, and go with it. Sometimes, I have been upset to find my work (and I know it is mine!) out on the internet when I have been excited about a piece of new-found information and shared with someone else. I get upset as I have spent time and
Thanks for the input, Debbi,
I know we all use the message boards, but they sometimes seem so random.
Genealogy.com doesn't notify us when we get a reply (or if they do, I don't
have the magic word that makes them do it) and there are a couple of ways to
post on those sites--by county and by surname. Mostly people post by surname,
and that isn't going to help me help them because I won't see them. However,
having a query page means more work for me, and I already have a lot of work
to trans
Hi All, Just saw this... Check it out.
Free Access & New Records at Ancestry.com
From today May 20, through May 31, 2008, Ancestry.com is
offering free access to its U.S. Military Collection in celebration
of Memorial Day. And this is just part of a much larger announcement
of a new records digitization agreement between NARA and Ancestry.com.
Hi all,
I think you've all used the search engine on the Spencer County web site and
found out what a great tool it is. Makes it so much easier for you to find
names you're looking for! What you probably don't know is that freefind, the
search engine, gives me a weekly report on what names have been searched. I
don't know who made the search, only what names they are searching.
Sometimes I see names that are familiar to me, and sometimes I might have some info
I can give to the person, but c
Same here, Marilyn,
I could go on and on about people who have taken my queries when I've said
something like "He MAY have been a twin to____" and the next thing I know, MY
grandfather is listed on someone else's pages as a "twin to____" in spite of
the fact that I've made it very clear, I am just speculating. But I really
object to people "stealing my grandfather" as I call it. People who aren't
even directly related to me put my Guinn's on their web site just because they
have Guinn's.
An
When I started using Ancestry and Roots all was free....Then I get emails
saying all the info I had put on the sites was on a CD and I could BUY IT!
Deborah Ray Piper
Spencer Co., IN
allpiper@swindiana.net
----- Original Message -----
From:
To:
Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2008 9:56 AM
Subject: Re: [INSPENCE] INSPENCE Digest, Vol 3, Issue 30
>
>
> Thanks for the input, Debbi,
> I know we all use the message boards, but they sometimes seem so random.
> Genealogy.com
Hi Peggy,
A bit confused about your inspence email -- you ALREADY have a query page
through Ancestry - so you only direct them to that Query area (one of the
first links "Post and Read Spencer County Queries"
So if they just post and read from there -- that would be their posting a
query as you want, and it is already searchable, free & no need to learn
how to do html for these queries.
If return address doesn't show the jmurphy@erinet.com it is because
sometimes when on my man friend's computer th
In a message dated 5/11/2008 12:04:45 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, Dick
Cooper writes:
My thoughts are some of postings and information we put in is being used now
for sale---not proven does not seem to matter.
Yes, but at some point it does start to matter. When you've slogged through
a cemetery on a hot day, waving aside the gnats buzzing about your head so
you can write down the names on the tombstones and put them on line for free,
and then they take the info and sell it--then it would matte
Hi,
I have, also, sent along information that found its way into either Ancestry or Genealogy.com's "sale list". I believe even Familysearch has Gedcoms on CD these days. It has been very frustrating at times. I do, however, have another "bone to gnaw on"! Being a serious researcher, I do not rely on what I find on-line. I take it, go to the source (if not named), and verify the information for accuracy. I began this hobby years ago when I didn't even know what a computer was or imagined what would be a