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From: "mona everett" <>
Subject: Re: [WALES-GEN] Re: Slow Start
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 15:15:34 -0600
References: <4c.11a2b1a0.27d5a218@aol.com>


I would love to see "one list" instead of so many splintered ones, but for
different reasons. I am not sure where in Wales my immgrant ancestor came
from--I now think it was probably from the south, but still....Mona
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Subject: [WALES-GEN] Re: Slow Start


> Allen Powell wrote (to )
> << I am subscribed to the Glamorgan List. Today there have been 60+
emails.
> There are close to 800 subscribers.If this is taken as a reflection of the
> population of Glamorgan then surely it is a nonsense to have separate
lists
> for Anglesey, Caernarfon and Meirionydd with much smaller populations.
> A short study of the 1881 census quickly shows up a great deal of
population
> movement between the 3 old counties, so what is wrong with a Gwynedd List
?
> Allen
> >>
> There is, of course a Gwynedd list AS WELL as the ones for the three
separate
> counties WLS-Gwynedd@ rootsweb.com.
> My own feeling would be to scrap all the county & regional lists and have
one
> national list for Wales. I am a member of most of the Welsh lists, I often
> get the same posting ten times, because it has been sent to so many.
> There is a lot of confusion about cross boundary issues — about 5% of all
> queries during the last week fall into this category — (I've seen postings
on
> Clwyd about Trawsfynnydd, on Powys about Fflint and about Aberaeron on
> Glamorgan and even I made the mistake of asking Glamorgan about Newport in
> Monmouthshire).
> 50% of the postings on the busier lists are about general interest matters
> pertaining to Wales rather than county specific - attitudes towards
drinking
> — what's the Welsh word for? - Whinberrys - Welshcakes - nonconformist
> burials — ap & vch — is this a common name in Wales? — what is the URL for
> the National Library? — when can I see the 1901 Census? - Can I visit
rural
> grave yards during the foot & mouth crisis? - Has anybody got a John Jones
> from Wales in their family?!!! Things which would be as relevant to the
> family historian in Holyhead as they are to the one in St. Melons
> 5% are things that are misplaced o genealogical lists and another 5% are
of
> the "testing" "thanks Jo" "thanks Jane" variety.
> Of the 35 % remaining, they are as likely to be answered by people such as
> Allen , John Gareth or my self who "pop up" everywhere as they are by the
few
> "one listers"
> I wonder how many people there are in Gwynedd or Clwyd who have not got a
> family member who "went south" to the coalfields. Is there anybody in the
> South who has not got a "Gog" skeleton in the cupboard, and is there
anybody
> in the World with Welsh ancestry who could not do with SKS who lives near
> Aberystwyth to do a lookup in the NLW?
> The A470 is enough of an obstacle to unity in our very small country, do
we
> really need a divided rootsweb as well?
>
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