A Kiwi Adams

[Mackiwi]

Can anyone tell me anything about this site? I find it interesting that many of the different families in my research are also on his. But ....... how do they connect???
I have to wonder if its genuine, as there is no reply to emails I sent.

[TwiggyTree]

Interesting observations Mackiwi.  I have found snippets of families there too.

It would appear that the site is being maintained as the last Legacy upload was in September of this year.

There are 2 different emails on the site - did you try both of them?

[Mackiwi]

I will go back and check which ones I attempted to contact 

Have sent two emails,now waiting to see.

[KiwiG45]

Sorry folks. Until "Twiggy" emailed me today I did not know there were researchers having a problem contacting me.
I started A Kiwi Adams Finding his Roots! website with 60 immediate family names in Nov 99 when it was much more difficult to find info on line. From the onset I made the decision not to discard any information or individual who was linked by blood or marriage to any current individual listed on the site. To a certain extent this has come to be a bit of a challenge for me as it has grown to 240,000 linked individuals and as it has developed as  it has broadened to cover 14,000 unique surnames and about 44,000 families.
Nelson my home town was a small community with a relatively limited number of large families who intermarried and moved to other parts of New Zealand, in itself with a small population base. Those researchers who elect to cover immediate family links only, miss the sibling links that result from a marriage which my site picks up. Some of the links have become apparent several years apart in the sites life and I have been advised by some researchers that they have found "best friends" to be 3rd cousins by marriage.
I can assure you that the info on the site is genuine. As it covers research by others as well as by myself I cannot guarantee that it is 100% accurate but the researchers who have contributed the information it contains, believe it to be an accurate record. Where I receive conflicting information about an individual I attempt to check it myself using internet resources and if that is not possible I tend to use the data supplied by the closest immediate family researcher.
To give you an idea of the challenge it now presents it takes about 30 on-line hours to update the site which is why I only do it about four times a year. I have a further problem in that I posted it on the My Heritage website, resulting in me currently having over 2,000 MESSAGES advising me of "Smart matches". They are covering 30,000 individuals. Genealogy is a hobby for me and as I work full time it only gets done when I get an opportunity (although my wife would argue that it consumes a lot of my leisure time)
My genealogy email is: ^(*)
Cheers
Graeme


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[spades]

Hi Graeme, and a warm welcome to RootsChat

Unfortunately we don't allow email addresses to be posted (this is to protect members from spam, identity theft, etc. as noted above) but I have copied it and will pass it on to Mackiwi via a Personal Message for their attention.

Thank you for posting here to help clear up the confusion.

Spades

[Janette]

Hi Graeme,

If you make 2 more posts you will be able to communicate by PM with others,even a smilie hello will do

Cheers Janette

[Mackiwi]

Thank you one and all for your information. Nice to see an explanation from Graeme, now I just have to get my head around it.
Sorry Graeme I didn't mean to cast doubt on your good intentions, but there is so much misinformation on the internett I thought it might pay to ask questions from the experts.
What really caught my eye was the fact that my fathers date of birth was way out, so I am a little wary of where the original information came from.

Merry Christmas all 

[TwiggyTree]

KiwiG45

Thanks for popping by.  Always nice to 'meet' another genie with a web presence.

Stick around here for a bit and you will meet a whole lot of wonderfully helpful people too

Twiggy

[KiwiG45]

MacKiwi,
As I want the info to be as accurate as possible I always welcome corrections and additions. Please feel free to advise me of the error in your fathers DOB and I will correct my master database.
Cheers
Graeme