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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Can someone decipher this job title for me?
« on: Thursday 31 August 17 21:20 BST (UK)  »
Thanks everyone!

(It is Nottingham- from 1841 census.)

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Can someone decipher this job title for me?
« on: Thursday 31 August 17 21:13 BST (UK)  »
Unsure what the job title for John Mayo is here.

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The Common Room / Re: What Country is your research ?
« on: Friday 18 August 17 21:21 BST (UK)  »
I have made reasonable progress in researching my English and Scottish ancestors, and although I've hit problems with my Irish research I at least have something to work with (I discovered family on census at Knockadoon, Irishtown, Co. Mayo)

HOWEVER

I have a Polish ancestor and I have no idea where to start on research there- so if anyone has done research into Polish ancestors please give me some advice.

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The Common Room / Survey Results Link
« on: Friday 18 August 17 21:11 BST (UK)  »
If you took the survey I posted a few weeks ago you may be interested to see some of the overall results in visual form.
Just go to the link below and please let me know your thoughts on these aggregate results.
Do you think they give an accurate picture of family historians?
Are you surprised by any of the results in particular?

https://www.surveymonkey.com/results/SM-DTLT5TBZ/

Best wishes,
Jack

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The Common Room / Re: Help for my academic study on family history researchers
« on: Friday 18 August 17 21:00 BST (UK)  »
Thanks so much to everyone who took the survey!
I got a really great response to it and most came via this forum.

THE SURVEY IS NOW CLOSED

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The Common Room / Re: Help for my academic study on family history researchers
« on: Thursday 17 August 17 10:42 BST (UK)  »
Thanks again for all your responses!

(Survey closes in 24 hours)

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The Common Room / Re: Help for my academic study on family history researchers
« on: Sunday 13 August 17 21:44 BST (UK)  »
Thanks again to all of you who took this survey!
(There are still a few days left to do it if you haven't already.)

P.S: For those interested I will close the survey on Friday morning and post the link to the results later so you can see which answers were most popular.

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The Common Room / Re: Help for my academic study on family history researchers
« on: Tuesday 01 August 17 22:27 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Rosinish on Tuesday 01 August 17 18:32 BST (UK)
Hi Jack,

"*I am mainly focusing on Ancestry.co.uk and ScotlandsPeople.gov.uk so any of your thoughts and experiences with these sites as both novices and experienced users would be very useful"

I haven't done your survey yet but I don't understand how anyone could compare SP with Ancestry?

Can you elaborate please on what your comparisons of those 2 sites consist of?

Could you also name other sites in your comparison list please as an idea?

Annie

Hi Annie,

I am a UX design student so, in terms of my own specialism, I am mainly looking at these sites from a web design point of view. Although context is important UX design is not primarily concerned with content but with design of the web furniture such as menus, search, navigation etc. Therefore although ScotlandsPeople is specialist and Ancestry huge and multinational the actual act of searching for records has many design similarities. Plus contrasts are also interesting, raising questions such as: does Ancestry's family tree feature make the research experience nicer there? Does the lack of Ancestry's swarms of American records make searching on ScotlandsPeople a bit simpler and more pleasant? Do credits or subscriptions make for a better research experience? This creates some interesting angles of comparison that just comparing Ancestry and FindMyPast or ScotlandsPeople with IrishGenealogy probably would not.

Best wishes,
Jack

As a specific little example of UX design for those interested/bemused:
Chinese e-commerce website Alibaba has a nice feature where as you type in your email address they offer dropdown selections of the common address suffixes to save you typing in "@gmail.com"
Now this example bears comparison to other new sign-up processes (even on websites that are fairly different)


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The Common Room / Re: Help for my academic study on family history researchers
« on: Tuesday 01 August 17 22:10 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for all the new responses!

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