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From: Rod Neep <>
Subject: NEW British-Genealogy.com BRITISH MAILING LISTS AND WEB SITE
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 21:21:56 +0000


======= The British-Genealogy.com Project ========
http://www.british-genealogy.com

A NEW GENEALOGY WEB SITE
*AND*
NEW BRITISH GENEALOGY MAILING LISTS

British-Genealogy.com is dedicated to assisting people with their
British family history research.

Not just to find ancestors and build a family tree, but to put meat on
the bones with information about where they lived, how they lived their
lives, information about their occupations, and what influenced their
thinking and decision making.

Real family history - not just collecting names and dates

Our aim is to give you guidance, pointers towards carrying out good
quality, sound research, and help on how to find the relevant sources of
information that will help you in your quest.

To begin with, we are giving you one of the most valuable resources
available on the internet - help from each other and from the experts.
These are the genealogy mailing lists, which are discussion forums on
various topics, and geographical areas. When you have a question then
this is the first place to ask for help.

This is totally free.

NEW mailing lists have been set up in a clear, logical, easy to use and
easy to find system, one for each county in Britain, together with some
more general top and specific topic mailing lists. They are open and
running now at http://www.british-genealogy.com

Once you subscribe to one of the British-Genealogy mailing lists, you
are provided with your own page where you can set up your own
preferences for how you receive the messages, subscribe to different
mailing lists, turn off the mail when you go on holiday, or remove
yourself from a mailing list. You are in total control, even if you
change your email address.

So.... go now, and look at http://www.british-genealogy.com

It is a great new project.... and different!

** There is no daily newsletter, junk mail, or similar from British
Genealogy.com. There isn't even a master list kept of all email
addresses.

** The British-Genealogy web site will be totally free. (No pay to view
subscriptions). I don't have any problem with pay to own, for example a
certificate, book, CD or copy of a parish register, but I do not think
that it is right to have to pay to locate an ancestor. I have always
stood by this principle, and hence my close contacts with FreeBMD,
FreeCEN and FreeREG.

** The lists are easy to locate, and there is *only* one list for a
county instead of several confusingly named ones. The new lists are in a
very uniform and logical format, with meaningful list names, and the
facility to have sub divisions of a county where necessary if there are
distinct cultural areas. But we won't be having any "pseudo" county
lists (modern counties) or regional lists that cover more than one
county. Nor will we be having any list duplication.

** The whole thing is run on a different type of mailing list software
to what people normally know. It allows each user to control how they
configure their own list subscriptions with a login to their *own*
configuration page, and it has some pretty neat features too, such as
suspend mail whilst on vacation, or simply switch between list and
digest mode.

** Archives are brilliantly searchable. A person can search them *and*
sort them by poster name, thread, or date, or subject line. They can be
made accessible to subscribers only, or to anybody, (depending on how
the list admin sets it up).

So.... go now, and look at http://www.british-genealogy.com
and join any of the British-Genealogy discussion mailing lists - to help
you with your research, and to have the opportunity to help others.

Regards
Rod Neep
http://www.british-genealogy.com
All British - for British Genealogy

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