>X-Apparently-To: papplebee@yahoo.com via 216.136.175.27; 29 Jan 2003 >23:44:29 -0800 (PST) >X-Track: 1: 100 >Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 00:44:12 -0700 >X-From_: judy2044@hotmail.com Thu Jan 30 00:44:12 2003 >X-Sender: (Unverified) >X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 >Old-Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 17:32:00 +1100 >To: AUSTRALIA-CEMETERIES-L@rootsweb.com >From: Judy Webster <judy2044@hotmail.com> >X-Virus-Scanned: by iTEL Virus Scanner. >X-Diagnostic: Not on the accept list >Subject: {not a subscriber} Oops / Have you compiled an index? >X-Envelope-To: AUSTRALIA-CEMETERIES-L > >Firstly... an apology. By making a typographical error, I sent some of >you on a wild goose chase. I've now changed the settings in my e-mail >programme so that I can't auto-insert the wrong URL! I was responding to >an enquiry about Cunnamulla Cemetery records. The Web page I meant to >cite (the main page for the Cunnamulla and South-West QLD Local History >Collection) is <www.judywebster.gil.com.au/sw-qld.html>. > >Secondly... many have you compiled an index that would be of use to other >family historians? Or perhaps you are contemplating such a project? You >are urged to register the project (free of charge) with the Central >Register of Indexing Projects in Australia. The Register helps to prevent >duplication of indexing projects, and (if you wish) it can provide free >publicity for your project via an entry in the book "Specialist Indexes in >Australia: a Genealogist's Guide". You must use a special registration >form to submit a brief description of the index and a contact >address. Indexes suitable for registration include not only those for >cemeteries, but also indexes to newspapers, Government Gazettes, Police >Gazettes, local history collections, published books, records held by >archives, and Australia-wide one-name studies. Indexes compiled in >Australia but pertaining to overseas sources are (in most cases) eligible >for inclusion. > >See <www.judywebster.gil.com.au/register.html> for important information, >guidelines, and a registration form. If you want free publicity via >"Specialist Indexes", the closing date for entries is 31st March >2003. You MUST submit details on the special form (*not* by replying to >this message), and you MUST supply a postal (snail mail) address. No >exceptions! > >For practical advice on the traps involved in compiling and using indexes, >see <www.judywebster.gil.com.au/methods.html>. This has recently been >updated with more examples of things that cause lists of names to sort >incorrectly, and suggestions on how to index names beginning with O'. > >Please do *NOT* reply to this message directly, as it won't reach me. Use >the e-mail link at the bottom of <www.judywebster.gil.com.au/index.html>. > >Judy Webster >************************************************************ >Judy Webster, PO Box 5043, Algester, QLD 4115, Australia. >B.App.Sc.(Med.Tech), Grad.Dip. Local & Applied History. >Indexes/advice: <www.judywebster.gil.com.au/index.html> >*************************************************************