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Subject: Re: [IRISH-AMER] website
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:42:01 -0400 (EDT)
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Can do it for a lot less than that, believe me!!! :-)

-David




> Yes you can register a domain name and host it for about $140 year.
>
> David Reed <> wrote: Hi Folks,
>
> I'm actually working on a free site along these lines now...I just bought
> the domain name yesterday, and will start working on the site itself
> soon...
>
> Just wanted ya'll to know...
>
> -David Reed
> (A McLaughlin/Murray and other's descendent)
> Bangor, Maine USA
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
> [mailto:] On Behalf Of
> Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2008 11:18 AM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [IRISH-AMER] Parallel world? Re: Sharing data- Irish
> recordson-line
>
> I agree Margaret. I will do some serious thinking on this. I can't say I
> can build a website but it's a process anyway.
>
>
> In a message dated 3/22/2008 9:39:01 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> writes:
>
> Or, perhaps start a NEW FREE or low cost website?
>
>
> In a message dated 3/20/2008 12:51:10 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> writes:
>
> Could it be taken a further step and set up a category of Rootsweb Lists
> that parallel the FH Centres into which we could all submit our
> over-priced
>
> information. I'm not up on this, but the information is divided by
> counties
> (or what?) when you do a search. There could be some rules for what goes
> in
> the subject line (surname/area/B-D-M/date) for easier searching.
> Inquiries
>
> could be made privately to keep the lists strictly records. I don't know
> if it
> could be done, not an expert (and I'm not volunteering). It just seems
> like
> this could be one of those times when the little people on the internet
> could
> have a big effect! What's that quote? "Think globally. Act locally."
> Margaret
>
>
>
>
> "Jean R." wrote:
> Hi Beth - Thanks for your thoughtful note. Yes, it would be a complete
> waste to purchase a record only to find it doesn't fit with your own FH
> and
> then just set it aside. Posting the details has the real potential to help
>
> other researchers. I have posted same, in this forum and also on Rootsweb
>
> surname and location boards. There were two unfortunate Michael FORDS of
> the same age who died in Liverpool on the day my Irish grandfather fell to
>
> his death from a defective ladder. I have posted details from both
> certificates to Rootsweb - that of my paternal grandfather and that of a
> stranger.
>
> Probably best to share data from a certificate, will, etc. on only one
> individual at a time with the surname/s (in caps), location, and date on
> the
> subject line.
>
> I have had breakthroughs to my own genealogy by posting known addresses.
> After doing so, a gentleman in England contacting me saying that his
> parents
> and my grandparents were friends and neighbors in the New Road area in
> TueBrook, West Derby, Liverpool, in the early 1900s, and that he
> remembered
> my paternal grandmother, Liverpudlian Sarah Ann (George) FORD as a small
> boy. Turns out he had an old photograph of my grandmother with his family
> and I had one of his father, Reginald CARGILL and my uncle Alfred George
> FORD in their WW-I military uniforms with their friend Fred BLOOMFIELD. In
>
> fact, this gentleman and I not only photocopied and exchanged old photos,
> but he has since sent me his autobiography and copies of his watercolours!
>
> That was just one incident where I got extremely "lucky" by posting a
> known
> address of a family member I was researching.
>
> A few years back I found a school alumni site on the Internet for students
>
> of an all-boys school in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England with information
> that led to a breakthrough on my FORD/CRUNDWELL line. That then led to a
> historian and author, Michael WHEELER, contacting me from Tunbridge Wells,
>
> England, and sending me a photograph of my cousin (his old friend) Leslie
> FORD at Leslie's first marriage to a Helen SMITH at St. John's Church,
> Tunbridge Wells in the 1950s . He also sent me a copy of his book
> "1939-1945
> Langton Green" where another cousin of mine, Doris FORD, lived. You just
> never know when you are going to get an exciting "breakthrough"!
>
> Jean
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Elizabeth Tordella"
> To:
> Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 4:47 PM
> Subject: Re: [IRISH-AMER] Irish records on-line
>
>
>> Good evening
>>
>> I have weighed in on the price of the Irish Family History website
> before
>> and I have to admit that I have not moved from my initial feelings about
>
>> the
>> prices charged. I realize that it is unfair to expect the site to be
> free
>
>> of
>> charge, regardless of how much money was contributed via tax or other
>> state/country money. However, as a consumer, I find the site to be
> quite
>> disappointing. I am able and willing to spend for things that I know
> will
>> help me. This site provides very little information about the contents
> of
>> the documents prior to purchase, a fact that increases the odds of
> making
>> a
>> purchase that is of no value to the consumer. It is this absence of
>> information that causes me pause.I would feel less distress if the site
>> provided more than a name and a date. Some of the Irish use and reuse
>> common
>> names across family lines and some had births in the same times/dates.
> It
>> is
>> near impossible to distinguish a good find from a bad find with the
>> current
>> information. I feel a need to be an educated consumer and find that this
>> site prevents that.
>>
>> Given its current information load, perhaps we should all exchange
>> information for which we paid regardless of its ability to satisfy our
>> research desires. I currently share documents that don't satisfy my
>> research
>> needs but wonder if I should post all information I purchase regardless
> of
>> its applicability to my own personal research.
>>
>> There may be more than one way to manage the expense. While individuals
>> will
>> incur costs, the more we share, the less they will receive if we share
> our
>> findings.
>>
>> I have no problem spending money for information if the information I
>> purchase helps me. This site prevents me from being an educated consumer
>
>> and
>> I am distressed by reports that transcriptions are flawed, payment
> aside.
>>
>> As stated before, share everything. The more we share, regardless of our
>> individual ability/want to pay, the more we will benefit and the less
> the
>> site will benefit.
>>
>> Just a few random thoughts. Please help me sort this out.
>>
>> Thanks for the opportunity to express my opinion.
>>
>> Beth Tordella
>
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