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Topic: The RootChats Experience (Read 784 times)
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patrish
RootsChat Marquessate
Posts: 4397
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I believe that this site was devised by Sarah and Trystan, how it is financed as it is free to subscribers? and are the Global Moderators personally known to them and how did they become them? This has been intriguing me since joining. I apologise if I have got anything wrong here but I would be interested to know.
think I should have titled this differently as I see we already have a topic with this name, maybe The Rootschat Experience would have been more appropriate.(*)
Patrish.
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this information is Crown Copyright. from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk London Hall, Thurston Stanley, Phillips, Ayrton, White, Morrish, Smith. West Ham/Barking Saint,Briggs, Essex Barker, Hampshire Kill, Kent Spong, U.S.A Earp, Scotland/Cumbria Templeton, Devon Morrish, Chudley |
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meles
RootsChat Marquessate
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Excellent idea. I have often wondered.
meles
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Brock: Alburgh, Norfolk, and after 1850, London; Tooley: Norfolk Grimmer: Norfolk; Grimson: Norfolk Harrison: London; Pollock Dixon: Hampshire; Collins: Middx Jeary: Norfolk; Davison: Norfolk Rogers: London; Bartlett: London Drew: Kent; Alden: Hants Gamble: Yorkshire; Huntingford: East London Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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kerryb
RootsChat Marquessate
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I've heard bits of hearsay and gossip but it would be nice to hear the definitive story of the birth of Rootschat.
Kerry
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Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.ukSearching for my family - Baldwin - Sussex, Middlesex, Cork, Pilbeam - Sussex, Harmer - Sussex, Terry - Surrey, Kent, Rhoades - Lincs, Roffey - Surrey, Traies - Devon & Middlesex & many many more to be found on my website .... www.kerrysfamilyhistory.co.uk |
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Berlin-Bob
Global Moderator
RootsChat Marquessate
Posts: 5705
by: My Daughter. Chatting to find her Roots !
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Parts of the "official" i.e.published history can be found here:
RootsChat in the Public Eye
http://1901census.rootschat.com/rc-media.php#westernmail
A short "what happened next ..." description,
Topic: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, RootsChat ! or: "Then he said, 'why not do it?' so we did."
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,115557.0.html
Bob
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Searching for Coleman, Moore, Kallnung in London; Margulies, Remenyi in E. Europe; Ancestors of Hessie Stevenson-Coleman-Baxter (Ireland, 1861) and, of course, any other ancestors for my web-site. All Census Data included in this post is Crown Copyright (see: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk) |
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patrish
RootsChat Marquessate
Posts: 4397
My kind of place
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Thanks Berlin-Bob that has answered a few of the questions I raised. 
Patrish.
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this information is Crown Copyright. from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk London Hall, Thurston Stanley, Phillips, Ayrton, White, Morrish, Smith. West Ham/Barking Saint,Briggs, Essex Barker, Hampshire Kill, Kent Spong, U.S.A Earp, Scotland/Cumbria Templeton, Devon Morrish, Chudley |
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julianb
RootsChat Aristocrat
Posts: 1440
Portrait of the genealogist as a young man
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And some of the background is actually set out here
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/aboutus.php
JULIAN
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Essex - Carter, Danns, Mason, Middleditch, Pond, Poole, Rose, Sorrell, Surry, Theobald Hunts - Danns Kent - Luetchford Nottinghamshire - Baker Suffolk - Rose Surrey - Baker, Bedel, Bransden, Carter, Coleman, Gibbs, Luetchford, Quinton Sussex - Gibbs, Langridge Wiltshire - Brice, Rumble Rootschatters fh websites - http://www.rootschat.com/links/04lg/ Any census info in this post is Crown Copyright - http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ |
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Berlin-Bob
Global Moderator
RootsChat Marquessate
Posts: 5705
by: My Daughter. Chatting to find her Roots !
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Does anyone else look at the early days, i.e. first posts in the Common Room etc.? Some of these original folk have so few posts to their name, I wonder, did they just not return?
I think a response I made on another topic is just as valid here . . .
I've contacted a couple of people here on Rootschat through the SIT and have had no replies. It seems that lots of people join RootsChat, enter their names in the SIT, look around a bit, maybe even make a couple of postings . . . and then disappear. This is probably true of other forums as well. Probably all the hype from WDYTYA and similar programs has encouraged people to "join" all sorts of forums, groups, clubs, societies, etc, but only a few of them then continue, the rest fall by the wayside, or "join" the latest 'in' thing or craze (knitting chocolate fire guards, maybe  ) ... which means that there is information there, in the SIT, on GR, etc, but the posters don't respond to messages. ... or, to give them the benefit of the doubt: unlike us addicts, some of them only look in sporadically at forums, etc, so they may reply later. But to people who are looking every day, that is totally frustrating !! And that the world is divided into Givers and Takers .. well, we all know that. Every group has it's share of GIVERS, TAKERS, and SHARERS, and fortunately, there seem to more SHARERS on RootsChat than on many other forums Bob
Add to this the fact that in the beginnings, (as on any forum) it is not obvious how it is going to develop.
So many will wander in to look at a new site and then leave again, as it is not interesting enough for them.
The corollary to Pels comment, is that often someone with very few posts starts contributing regularly, and it turns out that they registered very early, but then didn't come again for a while.
Whatever the reason, they "rediscover" RootsChat (the new, improved, all-singing, all-dancing version) and this time they are hooked
Bob
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Searching for Coleman, Moore, Kallnung in London; Margulies, Remenyi in E. Europe; Ancestors of Hessie Stevenson-Coleman-Baxter (Ireland, 1861) and, of course, any other ancestors for my web-site. All Census Data included in this post is Crown Copyright (see: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk) |
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patrish
RootsChat Marquessate
Posts: 4397
My kind of place
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Hi Pels, it was not just about my being nosey, I do hanker to know how things work, even though I dont always understand them, does that make sense. 
I havent looked at the early posts, simply because I have enough trouble keeping up with the current ones.
Patrish.
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this information is Crown Copyright. from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk London Hall, Thurston Stanley, Phillips, Ayrton, White, Morrish, Smith. West Ham/Barking Saint,Briggs, Essex Barker, Hampshire Kill, Kent Spong, U.S.A Earp, Scotland/Cumbria Templeton, Devon Morrish, Chudley |
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