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The Lighter Side / Re: RootsChat Link logo
« on: Friday 09 December 05 09:38 GMT (UK)  »
Brilliant - many thanks, Bob.

I understand all that, as I write all my own HTML code for my webpages  :o




Cheers,  Ann.


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The Lighter Side / RootsChat Link logo
« on: Thursday 08 December 05 22:55 GMT (UK)  »
Do you encourage and is there a RootsChat Link logo that we can use on our websites to link back to this Forum?

Cheers,  Ann


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The Lighter Side / Re: Why did you choose your Rootschat name?
« on: Thursday 08 December 05 21:01 GMT (UK)  »
Well, my surname courtesey of my husband is McClean, and we have 2 sons whose nicknames all through school and college have been "BigBitty" and "Bitty"  aka the rap singer Bitty McLean - so I'm "bittymatriarch".

When I do the banking for my husband, the girls in the NatWest all ask me how Bitty is [he's in Oz for a year] as they were at school with my younger son!

Cheers,  Ann


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The Common Room / Re: freebmd problems anyone?
« on: Tuesday 06 December 05 20:58 GMT (UK)  »
I often find it depends on what time of day you use FreeBMD - early in the morning about 6.30-7 a.m. GMT/BST is a brilliant time to search, but not in the evening  :(

Just my 2 penn'worth.

Cheers,  Ann

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The Common Room / Re: My webpage has been "cribbed" onto WorldConnect
« on: Friday 02 December 05 20:25 GMT (UK)  »
I understand very well that once you go public on your website about your
research, it's public property - but it doesn't half help bring in lost
cousins to the fold - as I know only too well :)
Just read my website Guestbook.

To quote the editor of Rootsweb Review:

"Plagiarism and copyright violation are two different things.
Plagiarism is using the ideas and original words of others without
acknowledging the source.  In scholarly research, plagiarism is considered
unethical and dishonest.  Considerate genealogists give credit to others for
information (and facts) but it is not legally required.

If your original creative writing about your ancestors has been "lifted"
then that *could* be copyright infringement......."

Cheers,  Ann

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The Common Room / Re: My webpage has been "cribbed" onto WorldConnect
« on: Wednesday 30 November 05 10:59 GMT (UK)  »
Have just a reply from Jan Botkin Therkildsen about this little problem and he states:

"  I downloaded what I thought was a very small file of just a few TRATCHELs, and got someone entire TRATCHEL file -- this page is noted as one that came from there.  I don't even know these people ............"

He is removing the offending page forthwith.

Now to find out who the TRATCHEL compiler is!

Regards,  Ann.

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The Common Room / Re: My webpage has been "cribbed" onto WorldConnect
« on: Monday 28 November 05 16:06 GMT (UK)  »
Guy - many thanks for your advice - will follow that up.

jean - the 28 November update applies to my PostEm note - which I amended earlier today in line with my original posting here  ;D

Regards,  Ann


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The Common Room / My webpage has been "cribbed" onto WorldConnect
« on: Monday 28 November 05 14:53 GMT (UK)  »
Found this recently on WorldConnect in relation to my Gt gt Gt Grandparents,
John BERRY & Tansley RUST:
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=janbotkin&id=I20657

My webpage:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cawthorn/BERRY/tansley&john.html

I know census info is not copyright, [by me] etc, but this person doesn't have the family bible pages - I have them; I'm the one pondering over where my gt gt gt grandmother is buried, not this person.  >:(   I am not best pleased at what's happened, but do appreciate once your information is out there on the web, it's public property.

Have left a Post-em note on the WorldConnect page about my webpage being
used without prior consultation & permission from myself.

Any ideas, anyone?

Regards,  Ann



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London & Middlesex Completed Lookup Requests / Re: 1871 LONDON [Spitalfields?] WHEAT
« on: Wednesday 16 November 05 18:41 GMT (UK)  »
Been there, done that - spent all last weekend looking for them :)  Loads of print outs, but none are the right ones that I can see - even used wild cards, but no luck.

If they don't turn up in London, they could be in Cambridgeshire visiting family, but that's a long shot and can be dealt with when I next visit my parents and arrange a visit to Wisbech Library to look at the Census films.

Just hoping that someone has the 1871 Spitalfields index and can just confirm that the WHEATs are there.

Regards,  Ann.

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