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Subject: Re: [IRISH-AMER] website
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:54:24 +0000
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Use the cheapest domain registrar that you can find, but hosting can be a
different matter with regards to quality and service !
Choose your hosting partner carefully. The right hosting partner may mean
spending a few bob extra now, but will save you a lot of trouble in later
years !

Kind regards,

Stuart
www.irelandandirish.com
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From: <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 4:42 PM
Subject: Re: [IRISH-AMER] website


> 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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