Dear Lorrae Thank you for your 5 messages and attached information. While I have not yet had time to have a look through them, I wish to first reply to your second paragraph. The website has not been "flashed worldwide" as you state. It is NOT LISTED in any search engines, the url is not listed on any other website, and in less than a weeks time it WILL NO LONGER EXIST. The only place it has been documented or advertised is in the rootsweb mailing list, for the express purpose of inviting interested people to add to or access genealogy records, which I believe is the whole purpose of this mailing list. I accept that many people do not wish to have their details made public, and while I may not agree with it, other websites that I have had in the past and will have in the future DO NOT SHOW DETAILS of living individuals. In this specific instance I believe that I am justified in showing these details for the reasons previously mentioned - that access is targeted to specific interested people and that it is short-term. I do not intend or wish to cause offence to you or anyone else, I only wish to explain my actions, and will be happy to continue this discussion off-list if you so desire. Don Gough Brisbane, Australia Tom & Lorrae Johnson wrote: > Hi Don > I think it is great - certainly got some details of families. I have yet to > check it all out but you touch on some of my families, such as the DIETEs. > > However, certainly glad I am not related to you to have my details flashed > worldwide. > > I will let you know (off list) details of the families that are related to > me. > > Lorrae Johnson > > -----Original Message----- > From: Don Gough [mailto:dongough@ozemail.com.au] > Sent: Friday, 19 July 2002 10:21 AM > To: AUS-QLD-SE-Germans-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Temporary website > > Hi all > > In an effort to share my data, I have created this temporary website > http://www.dongough.com/family/temp/html/famnames.html > where you can view all my files. > > The site, which does not have details of living persons removed, will > remain active for about two weeks, after which time I will remove all > details of living persons and move it to a new permament url. > > The main families covered are > BADKE BRAIDWOOD BRUNNER DAVIES DORMAN FLEGLER GUYER > HOEY HONOR HUMPHREY KELLETT KRONK MULLER MURR OBST > PITMAN POSTLE PROSSER RAABE REITHMULLER SAAL SEANIGER > SIGSTON SINCLAIR SINTON SQUIRES TEDFORD > and many of the early families (incl. german) around the Darling Downs > and SE Qld. > > Please do not hesitate to contact me if you would like gedcoms or > descendant/ancestor reports for any of the listed people. > > Any additional information that you can supply on these families would > be very much appreciated. > > Kind regards & have a nice day > Don Gough > Brisbane, Australia > > ______________________________

Sorry Don I did not see my comments as 'negetive' though I would understand that you might. As a point, anyone using rootsweb search engine has a chance of finding your email by anyone of the surnames you listed in your email. Thus as rootsweb is worldwide, the address was "flashed worldwide". Notwithstanding, I had spent in excess of 10 hours checking your database against names on my database, even making TWO direct connections with yours. One email was to this list advising that I would contact you offlist, which I did in FOUR separate long emails giving you further details from the information I had on my database. There was considerable time spent comparing your data with mine and organising the emails. I will also add that I included the 'living' in the details I sent to you. Your sharing is appreciated by many, and to understand our 'negative' reactions to having our details on the 'web' when we are prepared to include them in books must seem very unrealistic. However, in this day of electronics, when the mother's maiden names and dates of births are used as identification by many organisations, and with the recent 'bank scams', people become paranoid (maybe unnecessarily) but that is human nature and what makes us all so fascinating. Please do not get discouraged by the 'negetive' replies and I hope the other emails you have received will include more data for your research. Lorrae Johnson Plainland Qld 4341 http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=helmrich Listowner - Cross-Flood-Descendants Researching: 1. CONVICTS: CROSS, Flood, HAYES, McGEE, McCarthy, GALLAGHER. (Windsor, NSW) 2. WESCHE, KADDATZ, SCHAPER - Germany 1880's - Qld Aust. 3. MALLYON, Gibbs, Purkiss - Essex, UK 1874 - Qld Aust. Including - Davison, Moran, Hillier, BURNET. 4. McGUIRE - Ireland 1842 Redcoat - Qld Aust. http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~garter1/mcguiretom.htm Including - Melia, WORLEY, MOORE, SAUNDERS, THOMPSON, McFARLANE, Martin. 5. MADDEN, Coghlane, Burke, - Ireland 1863 - Qld Aust. Including - Collins, Burke, RYAN, DOYLE, MARTIN, SCANLAN, Campbell, Smart, Callaghan, O'Brien -----Original Message----- From: Don Gough [mailto:dongough@ozemail.com.au] Sent: Sunday, 21 July 2002 2:00 PM To: AUS-QLD-SE-Germans-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: Temporary website Dear Lorrae Thank you for your 5 messages and attached information. While I have not yet had time to have a look through them, I wish to first reply to your second paragraph. The website has not been "flashed worldwide" as you state. It is NOT LISTED in any search engines, the url is not listed on any other website, and in less than a weeks time it WILL NO LONGER EXIST. The only place it has been documented or advertised is in the rootsweb mailing list, for the express purpose of inviting interested people to add to or access genealogy records, which I believe is the whole purpose of this mailing list. I accept that many people do not wish to have their details made public, and while I may not agree with it, other websites that I have had in the past and will have in the future DO NOT SHOW DETAILS of living individuals. In this specific instance I believe that I am justified in showing these details for the reasons previously mentioned - that access is targeted to specific interested people and that it is short-term. I do not intend or wish to cause offence to you or anyone else, I only wish to explain my actions, and will be happy to continue this discussion off-list if you so desire. Don Gough Brisbane, Australia Tom & Lorrae Johnson wrote: > Hi Don > I think it is great - certainly got some details of families. I have yet to > check it all out but you touch on some of my families, such as the DIETEs. > > However, certainly glad I am not related to you to have my details flashed > worldwide. > > I will let you know (off list) details of the families that are related to > me. > > Lorrae Johnson > > -----Original Message----- > From: Don Gough [mailto:dongough@ozemail.com.au] > Sent: Friday, 19 July 2002 10:21 AM > To: AUS-QLD-SE-Germans-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Temporary website > > Hi all > > In an effort to share my data, I have created this temporary website > http://www.dongough.com/family/temp/html/famnames.html > where you can view all my files. > > The site, which does not have details of living persons removed, will > remain active for about two weeks, after which time I will remove all > details of living persons and move it to a new permament url. > > The main families covered are > BADKE BRAIDWOOD BRUNNER DAVIES DORMAN FLEGLER GUYER > HOEY HONOR HUMPHREY KELLETT KRONK MULLER MURR OBST > PITMAN POSTLE PROSSER RAABE REITHMULLER SAAL SEANIGER > SIGSTON SINCLAIR SINTON SQUIRES TEDFORD > and many of the early families (incl. german) around the Darling Downs > and SE Qld. > > Please do not hesitate to contact me if you would like gedcoms or > descendant/ancestor reports for any of the listed people. > > Any additional information that you can supply on these families would > be very much appreciated. > > Kind regards & have a nice day > Don Gough > Brisbane, Australia > > ______________________________ ______________________________