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JAP
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Hi B-B,
Please forgive me for saying that I and Ruskie seem to have fallen into the great RC invisibility hole 
Some posts prior to yours of today:
I'm sure Ruskie means a special board for people who have really seriously been seeking for their ancestors/rells for ages and ages and yonks.
A special BRICKWALL board (with a COMPLETED child board - ha, ha) - not your everyday brickwall. And Mods could remove any posts which weren't really serious brickwalls! And posters would be required to spell out in detail everything they know, and every deadend they've tried.
Yes Jap I did mean a brickwall thread - someone's beaten me to it.
On we go 
JAP
PS: There's quite a nice emoticon of a person banging the head against a brickwall - perhaps it could be added to the RC choices ...
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Scotland - HALL, HARLEY, LOCHTY/LOCHTIE/LOUGHTIE/LOUGHTY (very rare), MCLAUSE/MCLAWS/MCILHOSE/HOSE (quite rare and many very variable spellings - close to 100 to date), PHILP/PHILIP, VASSIE; Ireland - BOURKE/BURKE, DONOHUE (many spellings), DOOLEY, KINSELLA, MAXWELL, OSBORNE, RAFFERTY, STA(U)NTON, SULLIVAN; England - BAYES, BROWNELL, DALTON, FREEMAN, HACKING, PIERCY, SIDDLE, SWIFT, SULLIVAN, TINK(L)ER, TRIPPIT. Any spellings and many other names!
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Gadget
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I think Bob might have been summarising what we'd all said, JAP. Don't take it personally. I didn't get mentioned by him or you and I'd referred to a previous thread!
He's not doing it deliberately 
Gadget
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Arranroots
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... And Mods could remove any posts which weren't really serious brickwalls!
Yeah, that would make us really popular, lol!!
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Census Information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SOM: BIRD, BURT aka BROWN HEF: BAUGH, LATHAM, CARTER, PRITCHARD GLS: WEBB, WORKMAN, LATHAM, MALPUS WIL: WEBB, SALTER RAD: PRITCHARD, WILLIAMS GLA: RYAN, KEARNEY, JONES, HARRY MON: WEBB, MORGAN, WILLIAMS, JONES, BIRD SCOTLAND: HASTINGS, CAMERON, KELSO, BUCHANAN, BETHUNE/ BEATON IRELAND: RYAN (WATERFORD), KEARNEY (DUBLIN), BOYLE(DUNDALK) |
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kerryb
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Hmm, that could be dangerous, I think Brickwalls are a bit subjective aren't they??
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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Ruskie
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I think Bob is having a bit of a joke around ... Actually I like his suggestion of naming it the Brickwall Club. But it wouldn't be very exclusive - we'd all be members .
I like the idea of a summary too - keep requests clear and concise. (I'm a great one to talk)
Thinking about it, giving a link to a previous post may confuse the issue. Or perhaps I'm easily confused when I follow a link to another post and within that post is yet another link and so on.
How about just a request and summary of the known facts.
As long as anyone who is willing to search for the missing person/s realises that some of this research will have been done previously, then I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing if the same ground is covered again.
Perhaps the new searcher is more thorough, has new, different or better resources, or the previous searcher may have missed something. There may be times when starting from scratch might give a result.
Just a few thoughts ...
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Berlin-Bob
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I think Bob is having a bit of a joke around
Yes, my first remark was a spontaneous "but isn't that we do anyway ??" joke.
My next reply was serious, though 
and, as Gadget said, it was a bit of a summary of what you have been saying here.
While we are all just thinking out loud, here is a suggestion for an "opening statement":
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Welcome to the RootsChat Brickwall Club
Anybody can join, you just need to
- find your brickwall topic
- Read it through and make a summary of all you have found out and what you are still looking for
- add the summary as a reply to your brickwall topic
- post a link to the brickwall topic, here, in the "Brickwall Club"
- have patience ....
- have more patience ....
- and if/when the brickwall tumbles down, then edit your post here, to let us know
love & kisses,
the club founder
ps.
And in case the 'members' are slow in joining, here are some previous "Brickwall" Topics:
Topic: Very Hard Granite Walls
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,38634.0.html
Topic: BRICKWALLS: add yours here
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,147114.0.html
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As I said, it's just a suggestion, so if anybody wants to start a "club"
then please feel free to use all, some or none of the above text.
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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