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General => The Common Room => Topic started by: Berlin-Bob on Monday 06 December 04 06:55 GMT (UK)
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I would love to come to a RootsChat Meet, but living abroad, it is difficult. However, that doesn't stop me from thinking about it, so here are a few thoughts I have had about RootsChat meets:
Judging by the response to the RootsChat #1 and #2 threads, there is obviously a lot of interest in RootsChat Meets, but also a lot of problems trying to find a venue to suit as many as possible.
What do you all think of this idea ?:
Apart from organised Meets, why not make any and every Family History Event, such as Family History Fairs, relevant exhibitions, etc. a RootsChat Event, too !
For instance, if somebody posts a notice "Family History Fair at XYZ in March",
or "Exhibition of Thingamyjigs at XYZ in May", then why not add to it, something like
"I'm going, anybody else ? let's meet up for coffee / lunch etc."
*********** It's a "meet" already if two people meet up ! ****************
This has the advantage that
1) lots of little "meets" can be set up easily without a lot of organising
2) the venue is already fixed, and sometime, there will be venue near you
3) people who had vaguely thought of going to a F-H fair "sometime", or who would like to go but don't fancy going alone, would now have an extra reason for going
4) the event itself gets more publicity on RootsChat, with members asking who's going ?, where shall we meet ?, etc
5) If there are lots of RootsChat Meets per year, RootsChatters living abroad are more likely to be able to find a venue somewhere, to fit in with their visits to Britain
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Using a Family History Event as a "hook" for a RootsChat Event could work for RootsChatters everywhere in the world !
p.p.s.
maybe all postings on "RootsChat Meets" should be on the "Events" board, because, after all,
a RootsChat Meet is also an Event !
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What an excellent idea Bob (wish I had thought of it first!!) ;D
Jan :)
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thats one sexy lil santa lol
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There's a Family History Fair in Bracknell, Berkshire January 30th 2005.
Newbie
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Yes, I usually take a trip down to Bracknell- I'll keep you posted ;D
Nell
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Great idea Bob - when's the Berlin fair? ;D
Seriously its a wonderful idea.
Cheers
Ticker
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There's A fair in the Winter Garden Westen-Super-Mare on the 9th Jul 2005 called the SWAG Fair.(South West Area Group) 10-00hrs to 16-00hrs £2 Ticket
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Fab idea, and perhaps taking a little trick from my husbands hobby (miniture wargamming!!) a few online forums have grown up over last few year, one them being a monglrels list ;)
anyway sorry to ramble, when they decided to try and meet up at the various shows around the country, they all wore t - shirts with a mongrels logo and thier log in id on it - so they became instantly recognisable - just a thought
Beth
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Beth,
Yes - that takes us back to the RootsChat embroidered T-Shirts and Polo Shirts (& Baseball caps) that we started doing on RootsChat.
We've held back from really "launching" it, becasue we weren't too sure of the demand, and we didn't know how complicated it would become....
Trystan :)
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there are two options really about t-shirts
cheap option which would need little organisation centrally - would be to design a transer logo - which could be downloaded and then printed onto -shirt transfer paper and people could iron them onto thier own t-shirts themselves - you can pick up the papers pretty much anywhere.
or get them done and charge people - we have done this at work, but that means someone dealing with orders etc..
just a thought
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I'm still trying to find out when the next one is planned for - does anyone know yet ??
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