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From: "Joan Fawcett" <>
Subject: Fw: Early Tasmanian Landgrants
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 11:16:35 +1100


I agree with Douglas Burbury that it is a shame that the hard work of
someone is so quickly undermined and dismissed as copy.

For those who are unfamiliar with the amount of work that goes into indexing
,and the subsequent time and cost factor in having to code and load a list
of any type,but especially one of any magnitude,maintain the index,submit it
to the many search engines available on a regular basis so that it remains
to the fore for the beneficial ease of location by searchers,may I briefly
advise,that it is rare to recoup the costs of such extensive labour,and if
these indexes are shot down as soon as they hit the web, it is us long
distance researchers who will suffer, as the creators of the indexes will
get to the stage where they will justifiably thin "why bother".

Most of us who regularly create such indexes which can be viewed free online
have to work around regular jobs and families, and bear the cost of
maintaining a website..[mine alone amounts to over $700 dollars per
year-not complaining about it..just letting people know what it can cost to
maintain a site.].

The majority of my indexes are done between the hours of 9pm and 3am in the
morning, on a 6 day basis and I am sure that the other valuable indexes
available to be searched online are created on similar basis and time
factors.

I for one have found several people on Douglas' list which is beneficial to
my
work on the history of the Port Fairy region as so many of the original
settlers here came over from Launceston.
I cannot personally view these lists in Tasmania due to family commitments
and budget restrictions,and to have them online is of immense assistance,and
I happily will pay any costs to accessing the originals if means I can view
the records from home and continue my work, which is all self funded.

Thank you David for making the list available, it is invaluable. Your
sources are listed,
the alphabetical order makes ease for locating names.I hope you continue the
good work.

all the best
Jenny Fawcett
Genseek Genealogy.
http://www.standard.net.au/~jwilliams/data.htm










-----Original Message-----
From: Douglas Burbury <>
To: <>
Date: Thursday, 3 February 2000 8:28
Subject: Re: Early Tasmanian Landgrants


>At 06:18 2000-02-03 +1000, you wrote:
>>From: Douglas Burbury <>
>>To:
>>Subject: Index of early land grantees in VDL
>>In reply to Douglas post below
>>Tasmania Genweb also already has this list from the same publication
>>and the same copy it was one of the very first indexes placed on
>>Genweb in October.
>
>Actually, David Ralph's above statement is incorrect and misleading.
>
>The Tasmania Genweb does *not* have a copy of the same index which I have
>posted. There are several fundamental differences between the two indexes.
>Following is a clarification of the differences.
>
>* The index I have prepared is actually compilation from *two* main
>sources: Evans' book, published in 1822, and Scott's Map, published in
>1824. 1823 saw a large influx of immigrants to Van Diemen's Land on ships
>such as the Berwick and Andromeda, and many passengers on these ships were
>granted land in areas such as the Midlands which were just being opened up
>for farming at the time, so that Scott's Map contains many references which
>are not included in Evans. The Tasmanian Genweb index is *solely* an index
>of grants from Evans' book.
>
>* As far as I can see, the Tasmanian Genweb index more or less follows the
>same format as appears in Evans' book, to the extent that it would seem the
>GenWeb index has been almost cut and pasted. The index I have posted has
>had each entry tretyped, and they have been sorted in surname alphabetical
>order for easier reference.
>
>* Plus, the list I have posted has several other enhancements, such as a
>growing list of ships arrivals, contact names for people researching
>grantees, and a brief description of the location of each district in
>modern-day terms.
>
>I do not wish to detract from the efforts of TasGenWeb, but it's not
>particularly gratifying to see work with a lot of originality and added
>value being dismissed as a copy of something else.
>
>Douglas
>
>
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