Hi,
My, my. What a fuss! Let me release you from your rather heated discussion. Over recent months I have seen perfectly good Threads on RootsChat being disrupted by various people who, quite clearly, have not wished to add any useful information to the subject matter, but simply make rude and unhelpful comments about the original "poster". One such individual made that perfectly clear when she returned to the Fife Board after a self-imposed exile.
Let me make it clear that I wished to share with other researchers much of the information that members of my family and I had taken the trouble to accumulate. Bear in mind that members of my family took the trouble to drop into the Archives Department situated at Markinch in Fife and speak with people there. Others simply dropped into the Records Office at Edinburgh where they could spend a few hours each day searching the available records there. Now, why on earth would I want to search ScotlandsPeople when I simply had to pick up the phone or send a quick private e-mail to a member of my family?
Many people have become disenchanted with RootsChat because of the way that information is blocked or moved, and so prefer to communicate by the good, old-fashioned method of private e-mail with attachments. The great pity about that is that other people are unable to benefit from the information being transmitted.
Currently, my home office files contain a great deal of information about specific individuals and various families, including Birth, Marriage and Death Certificates. If I had been allowed to post that information without the interference of those people already mentioned, then a lot of people on RootsChat would have benefited from it.
I have been rather amused at some of the comments made on RootsChat, and have simply sat back and allowed some of those rather rude people to make themselves look rather foolish with their rather dismal attempts to cover up their obvious lack of first-hand knowledge of Fife and its people.
I am only disappointed that a few of you have been caught up in this rather disruptive scenario, but something had to be done, and as your postings are showing, you are just as tired as I am with it. There is no way that I will sit idly by and be dictated to by anyone, especially when that person is so clearly out to be merely disruptive. If people genuinely wish to receive perfectly good information on RootsChat, then, believe me, it can be provided, but without the intolerable rudeness being displayed by some.
Oh, incidentally, the individual who was drowned on the "Mary" off Bass Rock situated in the Firth of Forth, was John HEUGH. If my postings had not been blocked or moved, I would have been able to give you details about John who married Christian KEAY on 9th February, 1846 at Kilrenny. Their daughter, Janet Brown Heugh was born on 31st March, 1846 at Pittenweem and their son, Robert was born on 28th November, 1848 at Pittenweem. Now we can see why no more children were born. The name that I required was supplied by a person living quite close to Pittenweem.
I would thank those who genuinely sought to assist - that is greatly appreciated. To those of you who wish to continue with your disruptive tactics, I'm sure that you can find better things to do with your time.
Best wishes,
Tom.
