For many years before Ancestry killed them, we had very efficient county and 
surname Rootsweb Mailing Lists which were a great way of ‘advertising’ one’s 
family connections.

Quite often there would be a roll call which would be of benefit to new 
researchers or those who had recently ‘discovered’ another name of interest.

Another way of interesting listers is to engender interest in various 
townlands.  Quite often there has been intermarriage between families in 
various townlands.

I keep my large family tree on my own computer with Reunion software.  I get so 
annoyed when I read even my own deceased parents’ names on totally wrong trees. 
 I have often written to the owner to ask them to change the information but 
mostly hear nothing back.

I think Familysearch is a fantastic FREE site and I have in the past 
contributed by transcribing records.  I would never however put my family tree 
on that site and certainly wouldn’t put it on Ancestry.  I may be wrong but I 
understood Ancestry now “owns” all the information on its site.

Bill, I wish one of my various Johnston families came from Omagh or Fintona.  I 
seem to have three or four branches of them but all in Fermanagh.  

Margaret in Oz.


> On 12 Jan 2022, at 19:56, Bill Young via CoTyroneList 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Thanks to Roger Cousens and Gordon Wilkinson for valid observations about 
> posting family tree records.
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