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From: "Margaret Stevens" <>
Subject: Re: [CI] Birth listings
Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 23:14:43 +1000
References: <4BEE5B75.8020000@orange.fr>


Hi from Oz,

Mike, you and your committed members are doing a fantastic job and I'm sure
I speak for eveyone by saying a HUGE THANKYOU for your commitment and the
assistance that you give to CI.

You really bring our ancestors alive which is so very much appreciated
especially for those of us who live on the other side of the world.

Keep up the fantastic work,

Marg Stevens

Researching - Larbalestier, Bouton, Romeril, Chevalier & Vincent



----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike and Sylvia Bisson" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2010 6:29 PM
Subject: [CI] Birth listings


> Hello listers
>
> Dramatic progress has been made in the last 24 hours with the process
> for displaying birth and baptism listings on Jerripedia. I have managed
> to automate the whole process for converting lists held in a spreadsheet
> to the Jerripedia page and the first 1,100 St Helier birth registrations
> from 1842 onwards, out of 15,000 which are available, have been put on
> Jerripedia as a trial. I hope the remaining 14,000-odd will be available
> within a few days. My thanks to Mike Fry in South Africa for providing
> me with the registrations in spreadsheet form. They are the same births
> which have been available on the Jersey Archive site for some time, but
> whereas those are contained in massive web pages which take ages to
> download (sometimes never completed for users with slow internet access)
> and then have to be searched through line by line, the Jerripedia
> listings will be sorted alphabetically by surname (and hopefully date of
> birth) and be indexed alphabetically and easily searched. They will also
> be linked to the 200 Jersey family pages already available on Jerripedia.
>
> The automation process (these 1,100 records took five minutes to
> convert, compared with three days for the process I used for a similar
> number of Bisson baptisms earlier in the week) means that I can now
> easily handle lists of baptisms which any list member has in a
> spreadsheet format, or some other digital format which I can convert to
> a spreadsheet. Some of you have already contacted me, but if anyone else
> has lists of family baptisms (and marriages and funerals) please send
> them to me off list and I will put them on Jerripedia as soon as possible.
>
> The trial listing can be found at
>
> http://www.guernsey-society.org.uk/donkipedia/index.php5?title=Jersey_Surnames,_histories_and_family_trees
>
> Mike
>
>
>
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