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General => The Common Room => Topic started by: Johnbeddows on Saturday 14 April 07 07:59 BST (UK)
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Free with the Guardian today 'Guide to Family History'. supplement
Could be worth the £1.40
For those who did not get a copy
http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/guides/familyhistory/0,,2053687,00.html
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Hi, Everyone,
Opened my Guardian newspaper this morning to discover a 92-page supplement calling itself: "Family History". A quick flip through tells me that's it not a bad little booklet, though I suppose you've got to like what you read in this paper, and to want to pay the £1-40p inflated price that all English newspapers seem to charge on a Saturday as well as a Sunday now. Hope this doesn't sound like advertising, just thought I'd flag it up here...
keith
NB Rootschat gets a mention at number 23 in "The 50 best Websites"
"A U.K. based message board system with on-line forums devoted to the individual UK counties and other English speaking countries. There are also forums for general topics, such as occupations, immigration and military ancestors"
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...and tomorrow its sister paper, "The Observer" is carrying a 32-page guide "to the UK's top 500 surnames".
I wonder what criteria they're going to use for that...?
keith
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There is a very interesting Family History booklet in the Guardian today. Rootschat is listed as the 23rd best website.
Eileen
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Only the 23rd! >:(
:D Looks like we must try harder ;)
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I thought the Guardian supplement was a good bash - good idea to get one of their staff to have a go at researching their family history in 21 days. Rootschat is featured as one of 7 recommended websites for getting in contact with other researchers.
I thought it looked better than some of the booklets you get occasionally free with the Family History magazines. But I haven't read it all yet ::)
JULIAN
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My reaction exactly :o before I even saw your posting ;)
We should be No 1 8) 8) 8)
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On line at http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/guides/familyhistory/0,,,00.html
Stan
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Thanks for that EVG it is a very intersting booklet indeed.
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That is a bit annoying, considering the journalist that was resesarching the booklet joined the site and asked us for lots of help about genealogy software etc!
We couldn't have been more welcoming and helpful.
Humph!!
;)
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The websites weren't ranked in order of 1-50, instead they were broken down into categories. Rootschat was one of only seven listed under the heading of "making contacts".
JULIAN
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I don't think there was any ranking at all. The sites listed seemed a very good selection - trying to limit it to 50 would be very difficult
Trish
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...and tomorrow its sister paper, "The Observer" is carrying a 32-page guide "to the UK's top 500 surnames".
I wonder what criteria they're going to use for that...?
keith
Go to http://www.taliesin-arlein.net/names/search.php and choose
sort by ranking and it will list the top 250 names in use in England, Wales and the Isle of Man in September 2002 from Office of National Statistics database.
Stan
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Both my maiden name and married name match only once in the name search and do not appear in the top 250 by ranking.
I always knew I was unique. ;D
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I'm obviously as unique as you, because there's only one match for my name and I'm not in the top 250 either ;D
Could be why I have so much difficulty finding my ancestors! There weren't many of them.
Kerry
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Same here Kerry :D my married name is ranked 3866 and maiden name 13745 ;D ;D