Greetings - sequel update, Tuesday 16th January 2024
Today NZ’S STUFF news published sequels to their recent requests for help, locating long lost people.
RAWLING request for help, sequel.
www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/350143945/sister-red-zone-stayer-frances-rawling-pays-tribute-her-missing-pieceRC – DUNDEE , Debra
I emailed the PRESS newsroom with the info you supplied. Up to now, I have had no email reply acknowledgement of assistance offered. At the time I found your reply, re the good will of the establishment a bit cynical, and assumed it came about with hard learned, lack of manners, and good will, from the TABLOID press of the UK.
I did not necessarily expect a similar experience in NZ. So three days ago joined Carol80 on the NZ board, in the hunt for a HERBERT family. In the past Carol, and I, have contributed to research.
www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=879390.0 Herbert
For once I struck lucky, and while again I have not had a personal reply [from my families local newspaper since 1906,] their sequel story today refers to help contained in the eleven replies that they received, and specifically two that came about from my search.
The best being contact details for a Herbert family member now living in the South Island.This morning the South Island couple emailed me asking if I could scan the sequel in today’s edition, as the online copy, has in the last month, gone subscription only,
for lead stories. If you dial up the Waikato Times news on the www, you
may only get to see the headline and a paragraph or two of the story.
[Edited for clarity. FF]
When the Rural Delivery arrived I scanned, and forwarded it.
THEN Debra, this afternoon I received a thank you for the scanning, and a note that they had emailed the paper asking for a copy of the article, only to be told, SHURE we will happily send you a copy once you subscribe.
So much for good will, and a journalists contacts being a valuable resource.
What that person who replied on the papers behalf, does not know, is the man, while in business in Hamilton, was not only a subscriber, but for a period supplied monthly copy for a section of the paper, and professionally provided essential services to that masthead. I to have often been a contact point for obit bio material, and on occasion over the past 50 years supplied reports and copy, free of charge.
However, as I can never repay fully those who have gone out of their way to assist my research, I am only to happy to respond to others requests, where I can. Paying it forward. One well known helper on the NZ board went looking for 3 pages of a 1874 letter in a large archived file for me. Said he should be able to find it in the file of 30 years of correspondence. When he discovered the subject of the correspondence, he took the initiative to photograph nearly the whole file. 25 emails of high resolution photos. Approx 150 pages. It has grown into my largest local history project.
Keep up your good work
Alan.