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Continuation from http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,206729.0.html

RootChatters Glasgow Meeting Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th October 2007

RootsChatters will be meeting up in the wonderful city of Glasgow in October.  Planning continues around the itinerary etc

RootsChatters who have expressed an interest in attending are:

Sarah
Trystan
Boongie Pam
Falkyrn
Ticker
Runner (and Mrs Russell)
Kerryb
PrueM and OH
Carolann
Keith Bateman
yn9man
teap78
clare_hutchison
joe
julianb
Ann Baker
LA.Blue
apanderson
MonicaLesl
lanarkshire lassie
Paul E and the rest of the Etheringtons
meles and OH
PollDoll
Pels
mc8 (Monique)
Mrs Teddybear
Totallynuts2002(Karen)
oldcrone (Clara)
weemary
keenbutconfused
prophetess
Alangeo1
Quiller
kenhar
Forfarian
Mis Poohs - Janice
madpants
ike
daval57
mongoose2
gjil
janglaschu
aspin

The list will be kept up to date on this post

If you will need to stay over

For those who might want to book ahead, here are links to an extensive list of Glasgow accommodation:

http://www.scottishaccommodationindex.com/glasgow.php

http://www.visitscotland.com/sitewide/bookglasgow

http://www.holidaycityeurope.com/glasgowhotels/

http://www.glasgowguide.co.uk/hotels.html

http://www.glasgow-guesthouse.net/

Note the usual chain hotels (Hilton, Holiday Inn, Jurys, etc.)  can be accessed via their individual sites.

Orientating yourself

A fairly clear map of central Glasgow can be found here:

http://www.glasgowguide.co.uk/maps-full.html

If you feel you need to be able to cope with the local vernacular:

http://www.scots-online.org/dictionary/

and a travel guide is in the attached file (this is the same file as that previously posted in early February)

Planning continues

Please add any comments or suggestions to this thread. 

JULIAN

I recognise our Rootschat Moderators have a difficult job, and I have been known to offer messages of support to them (in the knowledge that some will heckle and call me a creep) when I think they have done the right thing. 

But I, and am sure others too, would like to have a better understanding from our Moderators as to what counts as an unacceptable posting, and the criteria used to remove posts/threads.

I’m pretty comfortable about issues relating to identifiable living people, and on copyright issues, but other “unacceptable” posts I am much less clear about.

On the basis that Rootschatters will have opinions (and wit), there will be occasions when the unclear line is crossed.  The difficulty is that what seems acceptable on one thread can appear to be unacceptable on another.  I’ve recently looked at some threads and then gone back to find that they have disappeared. 

On one of these occasions, I could understand that some might have found the subject matter uncomfortable, but there is a choice that us Rootschatters have to go elsewhere.  I don’t agree with some of the opinions expressed on here, but that doesn’t mean that I think those posts should be deleted

On another occasion, what I thought was a perfectly innocent thread appears to have disappeared, ie been deleted.

I have heard from other RootsChatters that some threads and posts are being deleted and those responsible for putting them there in the first place have not received an explanation as to why they have been deleted.

So I guess I’m asking for two things. 

First, can we be clearer about what is “verboten”.  This will make our Moderators job a lot easier.  I could find little advice about this anywhere, apart from the netiquette thread stickied at the top of this board http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,123033.0.html, which focuses on behaviour rather than content.

Second, can there be a protocol in operation where those whose posts have been deleted receive an explanation from our Moderators as to why the post was unsuitable and therefore why it has been quarantined/deleted.

What do others (Moderators and Rootschatters) think?  Are the current guidelines clear enough?  What areas need more clarification?  Does my proposed protocol make sense?

JULIAN

I have access to the Croydon and Beddington part of the 1839 Pigot's Directory.

To give it it's Sunday name : Croydon, with the Village of Beddington and neighbourhoods in 1839

For a look up request, please start a new topic in the CENSUS and RESOURCE LOOKUP REQUEST board for this county -  http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/board,263.0.html.  Please use the heading - Croydon and Beddington 1839 - [name] in your posts

Thanks

JULIAN

Family historian users will want to know that a new version of Gedcom Census has been issued - Version 5.3

http://www.fhug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=gedcomcensus:gedcom_census_versions

JULIAN

Attention all users of Family Historian

Version 3.1 of Family Historian has just been made available - http://www.family-historian.co.uk/downloads/whats_new_in_31.htm

The update is free for users of Family Historian Version 3.0

You can download it at:
http://www.family-historian.co.uk/downloads/index.htm

JULIAN