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General => The Common Room => The Lighter Side => Topic started by: suttontrust on Sunday 14 October 07 08:29 BST (UK)
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Just a tip for anyone doing a one-name study or trying to find people with a particular (preferably uncommon) surname. Join the social networking site Facebook. You can then search for every member with that surname and contact them. I've been researching the names Wesbroom and Westbroom and have found upwards of 100 people on the site with that name.
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I put just the surname and country on freebmd and family search and then sort through.
Not good with smith etc
sylvia
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I joined Facebook and found a couple unknown relatives. Problem is that they are all quite young on Facebook and I seem to be old! ;D
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I am on Facebook and I am very very old, ::), well 51, but then I joined for the Open University network and have also joined a few of their genealogy networks as well.
Linda.
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Yes, I too have joined some of the geneology groups on Facebook. There are so many though. Can anyone recommend any of the better ones? I have seen a lot of one-name groups. 8)
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I have joined `Genealogy` and `British Genealogy` but I havnt really tried them out yet.
Linda.
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Funnily enough they are the two that I have joined. Have posted all the names that I am researching and sitting back and hoping. Well, not quite as laid back as that !!! 8)
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Well done, I havnt got that far yet. If I can drag myself away from the OU network and the trivial chat with my friends I may make some progress!! ::)
I try to keep a serious and scholarly profile with my bookshelf etc but then you get sent hatching eggs and flowers growing and quizzes etc and it all goes horribly wrong!! ;) ;D
Linda.
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I joined facebook for fun but i have joined genealogy nutters united ( GNU ) and leave our ancesters alone. Lynette
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Dont think I have even seen those two Lynette! :-\
What are they like??
Linda.
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Yes, the hatching eggs, growing flowers and all the other applications are distracting but good fun. It's also great for keeping up with my daughter who is at Uni.
"Leave Our Ancestors Alone" seems very good for people interested in Tower Hamlets.
Perhaps sombody else has found some other interesting Facebook groups that they could share? :)
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I belong to the British Gen., Irish Gen., Ancestry and British Home Children.
Some of the groups are fun, there is one group that is "If 1,000,000 people join Ireland, Scotland and Wales will invade England".
I started a group for a certain rootschatter who is looking for a nice man :)
Karen
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Well let us know if you find your `nice man` karen. There is plenty of choice as I am finding out, but dont tell anyone!! ::) ;)
Linda.
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LOL, not for me, for someone else who is young and single :)
Karen
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Ahhhh, I see, sorry karen. Oh well good luck to your young and single friend. Its not too bad if you are old and single either!! ;)
Hope she finds one. :)
Linda.
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These sort of sites are of no interest to me, but after the articles in the Daily Telegraph recently of how a young woman was able to put false data there and trap a former boyfirend. I am definitely not going to go there.
It was malcious and nasty what she did. people do have disputes with former partners but it does not excuse this womans behaviour.
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I haven't heard about what she did and i am not on facebook but if someone wants revenge/is just out to get someone they'll usually do what it takes to get it. Therefore I wouldn't have thought it was Facebooks fault, it was just the vehicle that provided the route. If it hadn't I'm sure the lady in question wouldn't have thought 'Damn ...Facebook doesn't exist I'll just have to leave him be' ;D
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Its not too bad if you are old and single either!! ;)
I can totally agree with that :)
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Me too. Hardly Facebooks fault, she could have done it through any number of sites and John and I are on it and we are very nice, well John is anyway!!
Watch out for revenge attacks on Rootschat, but I am sure the Mods will spot them. ::)
Linda
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Watch out for revenge attacks on Rootschat, but I am sure the Mods will spot them. ::)
Linda
The very idea!! :o
Please keep this on topic (Family History) everyone, or it will get moved to the ToTb
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Hi Linda. Not been on them much scince i joined but they seem to be ok. Joined the Tower Hamlets 1 for a friend of mine on another site. Lynette
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I had half expected there to be a Rootschat group on there by now 8)
It's all publicity after all ;)
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Me too Passionplay :)
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Well I mention Rootschat in my profile as one of my hobbies but we need a few more to do that I guess. All good publicity as you say!! ;)
Linda.
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Well, that's three of us interested so I started one ;D
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=8922327023
I'll pm Sarah and Trystan though in case they object for any reason.
Edited typo!
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Oooo you are bold but a great idea. :D I am sure we will get some interest and it would be great publicity cos the genealogy groups are very popular.
Better go and join up (if its ok with Trystan and Sarah)
Linda.
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I joined too!!
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Me too!! Thats 3 already.
Linda.
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I've sent invitations to all the roostchatters on my friends list :)
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Well done! I've joined too ...spread the word.
I'm getting around to a mass mail of all the Tuckwoods on there - many are from Leics/Notts and could well be related whether they know it or not.
Heather
PS if anyone wants to add me to their friends on there feel free - my daughter puts me to shame :)
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up to 6 already :)
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Bit of a girlie group at the moment!! ::)
Linda.
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I expect the chaps will join in (well hopefully), they'll not like to think they are missing anything ;D
Steph.
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Very true Steph!! ;)
Linda
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I have just joined too ! ;D
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hello I've just put my name down .. I'm a chap, am I missing something ?
cheers John
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Count me in
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i'm in.
Got to even the balance out.
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Not that I want to spoil anyone's fun, but I have not joined Facebook, and I would now think very carefully before doing so, following an interesting article in today's Grauniad
www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jan/14/facebook (http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jan/14/facebook)
Form your own judgement.
Mean_genie
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I just checked out the Rootschat group on face book and only recognize two of you lol
I joined quite a while ago in the hopes of finding old school mates....but haven't found even one.
Will join the Rootschat group and I will be the one with the initials DBD...just so you know!
dollylee
p.s have found the list of rootschat nicknames now....sorry ::)
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Good old Grauniad, nice to know it never changes and just serves to remind me of why I dont read it anymore.
I joined because the Open University has a network on there now and its a very useful way of linking students who would otherwise be quite isolated and its proving to be very popular.
Linda.
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I have just joined making it 21 in the group. Lynette
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Just joined and there are 34 members now :)
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Hi Mean_Genie
What a very interesting article, I must say I read your article with the greatest of interest, erhemm whilst drinking a can of popular cola in a red can ;)
I think we all have to be very carefull on the internet because what you input is open to the worlds eyes. This is great if you are researching family history like us as it attracts fellow researchers, this is why we stop people posting sensitive information within about 70 years or so.
Trystan and I do not use, encourage or intend to use these sites, security is always our number one concern not only for ourselves but also our users.
Sarah :)