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From: "richardjames" <>
Subject: Re: [Cmn-L] testing
Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2005 17:20:12 +0200
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Possibly, the same with CMN-L & CMN-FHS, Pauline and I get lots of
questions/requests off list as well.

Regards
Richard
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Subject: Re: [Cmn-L] testing


>
> Dear Richard
>
> Maybe the reason why the Dyfed Mailing List does not appear to get as many
> enquiries as the Carmarthenshire ones is that most research enquirers
> find
> their way to the Lookup Exchange which is accessed via the link on
> Gareth's Help
> Page
>
> _http://home.clara.net/tirbach/hicks.html_
> (http://home.clara.net/tirbach/hicks.html)
> There, under the various Hundreds, you will find the name of people
> prepared
> to do lookups in the Hundreds in which they specialise. Using various
> indexes they are in one to one contact with the enquirer and do not come
> through
> the Mailing List. Pembrokeshire does not have the vast range of indexes
> that
> you and Pauline have worked on over the past 20 years or so but the
> volunteers do provide as much information as they can backed by local
> knowledge.
> However, of late, more and more enquiries seem to come on the the Mailing
> List
> and I do not know what percentage are dealt with direct.
> I believe that Pat Powell is one of the volunteers - a very
> knowledgeable,
> busy and involved lady!
> As regards Ancestry being able to provide all the answers I think it will
> be
> a sad day when researchers no longer look at the original documents.
> Admittedly it will save wear and tear on a valuable source but often the
> contents
> there can tell us so much more than a mere index. As a researcher for
> over 35
> years I find it sad that people can look at a census index, order and
> order
> a copy of the entry online without any of the thrill of finding a person
> after hours of trawling that did give you some feeling of the area in
> which they
> lived and the people who would have been their friends and neighbours.
> Just
> amassing a collection of dates and places is not my idea of family
> history
> but then I'm one of the old fashioned kind!
> Bye for now
> Joy
> Bye for now
> Joy
>
>
>
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