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Subject: Re: [IRISH-AMER] website
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:00:36 EDT


I got one from powerweb for about $60 a year.


In a message dated 3/25/2008 12:19:57 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
writes:

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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