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From: Geoff Wright <>
Subject: INTRODUCTION
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 1997 03:44:40 -0400


Forwarding a message as Don seems to have problems posting
to the list at present.

Please reply to the list and =not= me.

BTW - Following Don's comments about indexses on CD ROM's,
can I just remind everyone that Alex and myself
are presently looking at options on behalf of the CIFHS
to publish indexes on CD ROM. Lets not waste megabytes
of space on this issue again.

Geoff
---------- Forwarded Message ----------

From:Don Weston, INTERNET:
TO:POST to ALL, INTERNET:
DATE:17/08/97 02:46

Hello everyone,

By way of an introduction my name in Donald Valpy Weston and
I live about as far away from the Channel Islands and Jersey as you can get
in Dunedin, New Zealand. Yes.... many Channel Islanders settled out this way
at the ends of the planet, my grandfather Philip Bree VALPY having emigrated
from Grouville to New Zealand in 1907, is the only 'Valpy' as far as I am
aware, to ever come to NZ from Jersey.

For a couple of months now I have been keeping a watching eye on this
CI-ROOTS setup with interest, and now find myself after an expensive
computer upgrade and a personal connection to the 'net', now in a postion of
being able to take part from the comfort of my lounge as I please with all
the facts readily at hand, so any contribution I can make should be more
forthcoming than in the past. Apologies to anyone out there if I have seemed
somewhat 'lost' in recent times or have appeared to have gone A.W.O.L. There
are however a few small 'bugs' to sort out with the way I do things but at
this time they are minor.

As my opening paragraph implies, I am very much interested the family of
VALPY and it's derivatives wherever it crops up. I maintain a fairly large
database, and as everyone, it contains a lot 'strays' that have yet to be
slotted into the puzzle. I guess this is what we are all gathered here for?

Some of the families that are associated with 'my' Valpy's are:

Le BOUTILLIER, Le FOUR, Le GEYT, QUEREE, BREE, AMY, COUTANCHE, MOURANT,
AVERTY, GAUDIN, NICHOLE, DUMARESQ, JANVIN, JOUREAUX, De GRUCHY, GRUCHY,
ROBINS, HAMON, Le MASURIER, Le GROS, and many others.

The family history tends generally to centre on the Trinity, St Martin and
Grouville districts of Jersey.

If this rings 'bells' to anyone out there, I would love to hear from them.

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As an opening contribution:
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SOMETHING TO PONDER:
With all this new 'technology' that many of us have
acquired, it seems to me that it is time that we looked at using it to the
full, especially as most of us are countless miles away from the the
information source. (Top marks to those devotees that are well involved with
gathering us together and providing information sites and web pages etc).

I personally would like to see as a starting point the Jersey Census
Indexes published on a CD ROM format for us computer 'jocks'. I have for
some time committed limited Index data to computer and processed it for many
reasons, but of course all this takes a great deal of time. To be able to
use the data directly from a CD ROM as is it published in the book form
opens up a whole new 'genie' tool.
From the technical point of view CD ROM's are very cheap to produce and
I guess the original data that went into producing the printed Jersey Census
Index's are in computer files... somewhere, so we are halfway there.
A really good up-side is that with the CD's being so cheap to produce as
opposed to the printed page, by publishing also in ROM form and selling
the CD ROM at the same cost as the printed work, a very handsome profit
could be made to further the good works of genealology in the Channel
Islands to which we all draw upon.

I shall now take my leave and watch for comment.

Bye for now. Don.
--
"Have a nice day"

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