But John.... :) Your gggg etc grandparents may have used a method to record the family history way back in the 1820's i.e.. a family Bible. One may have been passed down one line only to be tossed by someone who was not interested and certainly didn't want a record of a convict on the family. How many times as that happened! How many times do we see family Bibles up for sale? How many times do we find old photographs that have been tossed out by someone for sale at the local markets? Computers are commonplace these days, but we don't know what will be available in say, 200 years. Some people upload their family history onto various web sites but we just don't know if these will still exist in 200 plus years. Lots of copies of the written word - I hope will survive and be retained by at least a few who are interested. Regards Lesley Uebel mailto:ckennedy@bigpond.net.au CLAIM A CONVICT http://users.bigpond.net.au/convicts/index.html -----Original Message----- From: aus-pt-jackson-convicts-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:aus-pt-jackson-convicts-bounces@rootsweb.com]On Behalf Of John Caling Sent: Saturday, March 07, 2009 3:53 PM To: aus-pt-jackson-convicts@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [PJ] Time travel All written down for them Lesley. Why on earth would anyone wonder why a person would move from Canberra to the Sunshine Coast? I thought the answer would be rather obvious.

Hi Lesley and list Major Australian public libraries are now undertaking selective archiving of Australian content web sites. I seem to recall that this year the National Library of Australia is looking at genealogy/ family history web sites. As you can imagine its a very difficult exercise in setting criteria as to who to select and to how often to take a copy. You can see information about this collecting exercise at the web site below. Also you can access on this site a list of sites that have been archived by NLA at some time. I note the list does include historical societies and also the Society of Australian Genealogists. Maybe this site should be archived by the State Library of NSW from time to time. I did not check SLNSW's involvement. Maybe the US library archive system archives rootsweb. cheers Grahame http://pandora.nla.gov.au/ > > Computers are commonplace these days, but we don't know what will > be available > in say, 200 years. Some people upload their family history onto > various web > sites but we just don't know if these will still exist in 200 plus > years. > > Lots of copies of the written word - I hope will survive and be > retained by at > least a few who are interested. > > Regards > Lesley Uebel >

Hi Grahame I do hope that they ask for permission before they archive anything they find on the internet. Rootsweb do not allow their lists to be archived by anyone other than Rootsweb Regards Lesley Uebel mailto:ckennedy@bigpond.net.au CLAIM A CONVICT http://users.bigpond.net.au/convicts/index.html -----Original Message----- From: aus-pt-jackson-convicts-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:aus-pt-jackson-convicts-bounces@rootsweb.com]On Behalf Of Grahame & Rosslyn Thom Sent: Saturday, March 07, 2009 8:00 PM To: aus-pt-jackson-convicts@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [PJ] Time travel - recording Hi Lesley and list Major Australian public libraries are now undertaking selective archiving of Australian content web sites. I seem to recall that this year the National Library of Australia is looking at genealogy/ family history web sites. As you can imagine its a very difficult exercise in setting criteria as to who to select and to how often to take a copy. You can see information about this collecting exercise at the web site below. Also you can access on this site a list of sites that have been archived by NLA at some time. I note the list does include historical societies and also the Society of Australian Genealogists. Maybe this site should be archived by the State Library of NSW from time to time. I did not check SLNSW's involvement. Maybe the US library archive system archives rootsweb. cheers Grahame

This has worried me - it is all on computer now but what is going to be the method of recording in say 100/200 years or even in 20 years - will what is recorded on our computers be lost?? I know that in my family a bible was buried with a family member and and all the information recorded in it is now lost forever so I try where possible to provide my family with copies of photographs, some of which are over 100 years old, so that maybe they will survive and be available to the following generations and it will be so much easier for them to trace their heritage and they will not have so many "brick walls". I know everyone is not into family history and when I was younger it did not seem important to know about your family history however now I cannot get enought information and how I wish I had listened to my grandparents & parents stories about their childhood and thir parents/grandparents coming to this country - maybe I would not have so many brick walls and I would have been aware much sooner in life that I had 2 convicts as ancestors. Joy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lesley Uebel" <ckennedy@bigpond.net.au> To: <aus-pt-jackson-convicts@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, March 07, 2009 4:22 PM Subject: **SPAM** Re: [PJ] Time travel - recording > > But John.... :) > > Your gggg etc grandparents may have used a method to record the family > history > way back in the 1820's i.e.. a family Bible. One may have been passed > down one > line only to be tossed by someone who was not interested and certainly > didn't > want a record of a convict on the family. How many times as that happened! > How > many times do we see family Bibles up for sale? How many times do we find > old > photographs that have been tossed out by someone for sale at the local > markets? > > Computers are commonplace these days, but we don't know what will be > available > in say, 200 years. Some people upload their family history onto various > web > sites but we just don't know if these will still exist in 200 plus years. > > Lots of copies of the written word - I hope will survive and be retained > by at > least a few who are interested. > > Regards > Lesley Uebel > mailto:ckennedy@bigpond.net.au > CLAIM A CONVICT > http://users.bigpond.net.au/convicts/index.html > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > AUS-PT-JACKSON-CONVICTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > E-mail message checked by Internet Security (6.0.0.386) > Database version: 5.11910 > http://www.pctools.com/en/internet-security/ E-mail message checked by Internet Security (6.0.0.386) Database version: 5.11910 http://www.pctools.com/en/internet-security/