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From: Rod Neep <>
Subject: NEW British-Genealogy.com BRITISH MAILING LISTS AND WEB SITE
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 01:27:07 +0000
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Joe <> writes
>I know I'm pessimistic, but this still looks like another form of
>genealogy.com pay-as-you-go.

You could not be further from the truth.

And I will stake my reputation on it.

Best regards
Rod Neep

>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Rod Neep [mailto:]
>Sent: March 14, 2003 4:22 PM
>To:
>Subject: **SPAM** NEW British-Genealogy.com BRITISH MAILING LISTS AND WEB
>SITE
>
>
>======= 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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