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Leicestershire Lookup Requests / north kilworth marriage 1801 help please
« on: Saturday 29 December 07 13:44 GMT (UK)  »
Is anyone able to look up the following for me please:

North Kilworth marriages
2nd June 1801
William GOODRICH
Mary WHITEMAN

just hoping there may be some further info such as father`s name or place of origin etc to help me confirm that I have the correct couple here.

fingers crossed
sheddyg


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Census and Resource Discussion / Re: tribal pages, my family.com etc
« on: Friday 28 December 07 18:19 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you Raphael, that`s such a great post! ;D And what a good point you make about inaccurate information being passed on and the need for meticulous research methods.

To feel protective towards ones family members, whether alive or otherwise, is natural and respectful, and to preserve their memory and honour their existence appropriately is right, and, I think, very connected to thoughts of our own (im)mortality. I would hate to think that in two hundred years time I was just one of a huge collection of names and married off to the wrong chap with a set of entirely unrelated children!

Therefore I feel the need to keep my research "in the family" - not all of it maybe, but I like the idea of having that option.

I am also deeply suspicious of what commercial sites may one day wish to do with the information I list with them. I know most of what I find is in the public domain and, usually, freely available however my research is my investment and I choose to invest wisely. I feel I have a responsibility to generations past, present and future.

Hobbies are also supposed to be fun and so to find a user friendly option that I can share with other interested family members would be ideal.

Its always very helpful to hear the experiences of fellow Rootschatters. Maybe one day Rootschat will offer something similar to Tribal pages, MyFamily etc...
Happy New Year
sheddyg


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Census and Resource Discussion / Re: tribal pages, my family.com etc
« on: Thursday 27 December 07 15:24 GMT (UK)  »
Yes, I guess a link would be the answer if you want more on the site than just your family history stuff.

I suppose I was thinking along the lines of using the site as a kind of meeting place for family members, where information, memories, etc could be shared and displayed and added to... and so on.

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Census and Resource Discussion / Re: tribal pages, my family.com etc
« on: Thursday 27 December 07 11:52 GMT (UK)  »
It looks like they host your site (their design, but you customise it) and you invite people to become private members - so that only these people get to see your family info on your site. I don`t think it all has to be private as you can search through the sites.

It looks very good, and I think its free.

I was wondering if there are other similar hosting sites out there and what they are like to use?

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Census and Resource Discussion / Re: tribal pages, my family.com etc
« on: Thursday 27 December 07 10:35 GMT (UK)  »
Yes,  I`ve looked at GenCircles too, although I think its probably very reliant on having lots of people using it very regularly (like Rootschat! ;)) otherwise it doesn`t work (unlike Rootschat ;)).

With something like Tribal pages I like the idea of a private site, except that sometimes I feel like a voice in the wilderness with some of my surnames so I would probably be the only member!!


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Census and Resource Discussion / tribal pages, my family.com etc
« on: Wednesday 26 December 07 17:05 GMT (UK)  »
I was just wondering what other sites there are like tribal pages, my family etc which host private pages accessed by invitation only... and what other rootschatters experiences and opinions are of these sites.
sheddyg.

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Leicestershire Lookup Requests / Re: please help me decipher Pallots entry for Wigston Magna
« on: Wednesday 26 December 07 10:23 GMT (UK)  »
Well Rog, I am very embarrassed to say that in all the years I have been doing this (and I have looked at Pallot`s countless times) I didn`t realise that each entry for the same couple was different!! :-[  So Thank You for that  ;D I will, in future, check each entry just in case there`s a hidden golden nugget of info.

Many thanks Rog
Merry Christmas
sheddyg :)

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Leicestershire Lookup Requests / Re: please help me decipher Pallots entry for Wigston Magna
« on: Wednesday 26 December 07 09:41 GMT (UK)  »

A highwayman in the family eh! How exciting! I shall have to read up on him. Sadly I won`t be able to claim him as one of mine as I am descended from the Goodrich family - don`t suppose you know anything about them do you? They`re doing my head in at the moment...

Merry Christmas
sheddyg


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Leicestershire Lookup Requests / Re: please help me decipher Pallots entry for Wigston Magna
« on: Wednesday 26 December 07 08:47 GMT (UK)  »
Lesleyu, Mike,

Thank you for your replies. - Yes indeed, very infuriating!  >:(

Mike I`m very grateful to you - as it turns out (and as I suspected) that missing piece of information is vital to identifying where Ebenezer is from !

Thank you. This has really helped me with my research.  ;D

sheddyg

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