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The Common Room / Re: Death of RootsChatter: 'Christopher'
« on: Saturday 06 June 09 01:03 BST (UK) »
It's good to see how many people's lives were touched by Christopher and how much he was appreciated.
Dave
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Monaghan / Re: WRIGHT Family Killeevan and Clones
« on: Friday 07 November 08 19:29 GMT (UK) »
It's always the way, a feast or a famine!
Did you have some Swan(n) connection as well? I've seen that in my notes too.
I still haven't contacted Gordon, so please let me know how you get on.
All the best,
Dave
Did you have some Swan(n) connection as well? I've seen that in my notes too.
I still haven't contacted Gordon, so please let me know how you get on.
All the best,
Dave
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Monaghan / Re: WRIGHT Family Killeevan and Clones
« on: Friday 07 November 08 18:46 GMT (UK) »
Hi Christopher,
Thanks for understanding. It does get very frustrating at times. I'm still working full time and I have to snatch a few hours every now and again for the family history research. There's a lot of information around and I wish I'd got more time to put it together.
I was just reading another post on CORBETTs in Monaghan. My gt-grandfather's first wife was a Corbett, so I have a bit of info on them. I was just trying to hoke it out when I saw your reply.
I'm in email contact with the Hall/Wright researchers and have just sent them a couple of possibilities that they may not have yet.
Co-operation rules!
Thanks for understanding. It does get very frustrating at times. I'm still working full time and I have to snatch a few hours every now and again for the family history research. There's a lot of information around and I wish I'd got more time to put it together.
I was just reading another post on CORBETTs in Monaghan. My gt-grandfather's first wife was a Corbett, so I have a bit of info on them. I was just trying to hoke it out when I saw your reply.
I'm in email contact with the Hall/Wright researchers and have just sent them a couple of possibilities that they may not have yet.
Co-operation rules!
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Monaghan / Re: WRIGHT Family Killeevan and Clones
« on: Friday 07 November 08 16:06 GMT (UK) »Sent him an email. The site was set up in 2004, maybe he thinks there is no interest as no one has joined!!
Hi guys, it's me, the webmaster of www.mctriangle.com !
I had closed the site to new members for a while for two reasons.
1) someone had hacked the host's server and was using bits of my area to send out porn and spam, or even host it! I couldn't get the host to take it seriously, so I made a mirror site to accomodate the current members until the hosting deal ran out. I've moved to a new host now, and things seem to be okay there.
2) I wanted this site to be a centre for collaboration on research into the WRIGHTs in Co Monaghan. I started putting quite a bit of data I'd collected on the site and opened it for like-minded researchers. Unfortunately those who have joined seem to be unwilling or unable to share their own information. I've come to the conclusion that family history researchers are mainly selfish, understandably, because they are almost always only interested in taking information on their own families.
I have actually 36 members of the site. Could have been a lot more, but I'm picky now. One guy told me my site was rubbish, just because he could not find any of his relatives mentioned there!
I still have the dilemma of whether to put more data, and I have more, on the site or not. Why should I, if no-one is willing to help? I've spent a lot of money going to PRONI, to Monaghan, to Dublin and spent hours transcribing the data. Why should I simply give it to someone, who can't be bothered to say thanks or contribute their information? And, if people are collaborating with me, what is my responsibility towards the information they contribute? [One member turned out to be a professional genealogist. If she uses these data from my site, contributed by others, in a professional report, am I effectively responsible for the accuracy of the information? How would the members feel about their data being sold? I'm still not clear on this aspect and so I'm not too happy to allow unknowns to register for membership].
Sorry for the length of this post, but I had to get it out!
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