Kathleen and Len I have no doubt that Len's high volume of historical data posted on this list is read and used by many of us. Perhaps the reason that Len is not getting positive feedback from many of the readers is simply due to the change in behaviour since computer technology took over from the previous letter-writing that older Listers will remember.
Today it is so much quicker and easier to find information. People are generally multitasking in their computer research, most subscribing to more than one List, and visiting many websites in a short period of time. Compare this to when one had to wait at least weeks and often months for a response to each query and etiquette played a part in our letterwriting. I think the whole process was more personal before computers. Len, people must have benifitted from your good work. Your data is available on a website as well as posted on the County Tyrone List I think? Do you have any help in putting the data together or is this all your own work? I would like to know more about what motivated you to do the research and then to make it so freely available as you do. Please tell more about the families in which you are interested and how you are getting on with your own family history research. I can understand how you might feel like an anonymous supplier of data and I would like to encourage you to take the positive view that the readership values your data, scanning it regularly, some might print it off for further consultation. I guess we might have different ways of using it. Hopefully listers will respond by taking time to share with you and the List, how they manage and benefit from your data. Is that acceptable to to the Listowners, or should we contact Len by his email? Thank you Len Swindley, Susan Wann On Monday, June 12, 2017, K Cooper <[email protected]> wrote: > Susan and Len, > > I also wanted to comment on the formatting of the data - it is so easy to > scan visually. I'm also reading every list to hopefully find more missing > links! I know it is just a matter of time before I find another tidbit. So > many of my relations' surnames are on the site already - I just need to > find those special "ones" that will solve a mystery. > > Kathleen > On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 1:39 AM <[email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> wrote: > >> Hello Len >> >> I have read through everything that you have posted to the List as both >> my ancestors (GRAHAM and McCLUNG) and my husbands ancestors ( MOORHEAD and >> STEWART WATT) are proving very difficult to confirm. >> >> So you will be pleased to hear that I have copied every reference to >> these family names in Co Tyrone in the hope that one day I can match them >> up with ancestors we DO have given names and dates for. One day I hope I >> will be able to tell you that I have actually found a match! >> >> Extremely grateful for your data, particularly as it is so well presented >> and easy to read. >> >> Thank you Len >> >> Susan Wann in Auckland, NZ >> >> >> >> Sent from Mail <https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for >> Windows 10 >> >> >> >> *From: *Len Swindley >> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');> >> *Sent: *Sunday, 11 June 2017 7:47 PM >> *To: *Susan Wann <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');> >> *Cc: *[email protected] >> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');> >> *Subject: *RE: [CoTyroneIreland] CoTyroneIreland.com - New Content - >> DonagheadyParish Church Marriages 1845-70 >> >> >> >> Hello Susan, >> >> At 41 pages, am unsure if Donagheady Parish Church civil registration >> marriages is my largest file of transcribed marriages; it may be, but >> certainly not my largest submission to CTI. Some of my indexes to the >> individual Tyrone parishes’ tithe applotment books amount to in excess of >> sixty pages and there were a couple that exceeded seventy. >> >> >> >> Actually, the Donagheady file consists of in excess of 200 marriages: >> when the rector (or his clerk) reached the first hundred, instead of >> continuing, he reverted back to #1; thus #101 is actually #201. >> >> >> >> I would be pleased to hear from researchers who have benefitted from this >> data. >> >> Len Swindley, Melbourne, Australia >> >> >> >> Sent from Mail <https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for >> Windows 10 >> >> >> >> *From: *Susan Wann <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');> >> *Sent: *Sunday, 11 June 2017 10:36 AM >> *To: *Jim McKane <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');> >> *Cc: *[email protected] >> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');> >> *Subject: *Re: [CoTyroneIreland] CoTyroneIreland.com - New Content - >> Donagheady Parish Church Marriages 1845-70 >> >> >> >> HUGE it is! THank you Len. Is this a record number of entries you have >> posted? Great work from you. >> >> Susan Wann >> >> On Sunday, June 11, 2017, Jim McKane <[email protected] >> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> wrote: >> >> Donagheady Parish Church (St. James' Church of Ireland), Earl's Gift, >> Donemana Marriages 1845-70 >> <http://www.cotyroneireland.com/marriages/donagheady4.html> >> >> >> >> Thanks again to Len Swindley for another HUGE addition to CTI with over >> 100 marriages!! >> >> >> Jim McKane >> >> South Bruce Peninsula, Ontario >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CoTyroneList mailing list >> [email protected] >> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');> >> http://lists.cotyroneireland.com/mailman/listinfo/cotyronelist >> >
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