Hi All We have not had a roll call for ages so these are a few of mine FRANKLIN Oldbury , Herts JUGGINS , Bromsgrove and West Bromwich am trying to track down the family of Ada Juggins she married a James Jones from Stone Cross and they lives on a cannal boat there for many years , latter on they moved to Friar Park when it was newly built Taylors Tipton and Sedgley Sayers Ireland and West Bromwich PUGH Sedgley and West Bromwich ROUND Dudley THOMPSON Kingswinford BUFF Sedgley and Kingswinford WHITEHOUSES Oldbury and Bilston HUGHES Handsworth , and London HILL Bilston HAMLINTON Eastborne , WEBB Oldswinford SQUIRES Oldswinford CARTRIGHT Oldswinford JACKSON Oldswinford CASH Dudley HUSSELBY Kingswinford WAKELUM Kingswinford Sedgley ALL SEDGLEY PAYTON, HAND, PIT, BENNETT, WARTER, TIMOTHY, BUTTON, BRADLEY, CROFT HOMER WALKER HAND FRODGLEY these are just a few of my family names and they go back to the 1501600s with some of them Cheers Cassy WARNER, CLARK WEBB PLACEUM , WHETHERED BRINDLE , FITZJOHN KENNY , All Hertfordshire Cassy List Owner Griffiths , List Admin BC Wolverhampton , Potteries

Greetings from the Colonies, my Black Country relatives are: BIRKS (BURKS), Kingswinford, Cradley Heath, Rowley Regis ca 1855-1893 HILL, Wordsley ca 1866 ROWLEY, Coseley, Rowley ca 1811-1835

Hi Yorkie No , she died if I remenber right or should I say buried her in March 1939, I have to find the bury details to be sure of the date , and they are upstairs at the moment with a pile of other stuff which I am trying to sort out The dogs are having a whale of a time the youngest decided to chew all my Hickman census up , when I turn my back , proud has punch he was walking about with chewed up picies in his mouth Cassy List Owner Griffiths , List Admin BC Wolverhampton , Potteries ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 7:31 PM Subject: Re: [Black Country] Death look up > > In a message dated 05/03/2010 16:22:48 GMT Standard Time, > [email protected] writes: > > Trying to find the death record of my gr grandmother > I know where she is buried , and when but I cant find > any records of her death > > > Cassy there is a Emily Franklin death recorded in Birmingham in 1940. > Could this be yours? > > Yorkie > ------------------------------------- > The only List that specifically covers the whole of the Black Country. Run > by Black Country folk who were born and still live in the area. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.733 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2723 - Release Date: 03/05/10 07:34:00

Dave I too, have noticed the decline in traffic via the website. I have enjoyed reading other folks' topics and am glad that you will revert to posting replies to the list. Looking forward to more helpful and interesting mails. Rob G Halesowen -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dave Ogden Sent: 05 March 2010 13:22 To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: [Black Country] List Changes Afternoon All, I've decided to put the lists back to their original settings in that all replies will now go to the list instead of the sender. Many listers see a question which may help them but never see the replies, and for those looking back in the archives it's a hopeless task tracking down someone who has probably changed their email address. Most other lists do this, hence their seemingly "busy" status. One thing to remember now is that if you don't want to reply to the list as a whole, you must physically make sure that your reply goes to sender. In most popular email clients the simpler way is to firstly select reply all and then delete the list address. It's actually just a reverse of how the list is working at present. Here's to many less brick walls this year! Dave Wednesbury England Listowner: The Black Country, Staffordshire, The Potteries, Ironbridge, Leek & Lowe, Wolverhampton etc., ------------------------------------- The only List that specifically covers the whole of the Black Country. Run by Black Country folk who were born and still live in the area. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Paul Just as at Darkhouse Baptist here's a similar graveyard at Providence Chapel. I have generations of Flavells buried there but can't get into the graveyard. The church have the graveyard fenced off - for Health + Safety reasons! It's so frustrating that relatives can't get in to tend their family graves. Meanwhile the graves get more overgrown and decay while relatives who are willing to help care for the graveyard are kept out regards Trevor -------------------------------------------------- From: "Paul Bennett" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 12:54 PM To: <[email protected]>; "Black Country Messages" <[email protected]>; "Sedgley Roots web" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Black Country] [ENG-STS-SEDGLEY] Emails to List > > Christiana > > > > Would you know if Darkhouse Baptist Chapel in Coseley still has its > cemerty itact. It was looking very delapidated the last time I saw it. I > once asked the vicar if he had plans of who was buried there as I was > trying to find my grand parents grave, but he said they had been stolen. > Grave yards like that should be tended to and tided up. Not flattened > and grassed over. If there is ever a project to clean up the place I > would be there in a flash to help out. All my dads relations lived in > that area. He was born in Darkhouse lane and worked at the Cannon. His > mohers family lived in Siddons Road. > > > > Best wishes, > > > > Paul > >> From: [email protected] >> To: [email protected] >> Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 13:45:05 +0100 >> Subject: Re: [ENG-STS-SEDGLEY] Emails to List >> >> I have to say, much of my 'vast knowledge' comes via Ian, Carl, Satima, >> Tracy, etc etc, and Gloria herself, not to mention Trevor Genge and >> others locally. >> >> Personally, I'm trying to catch up in the garden after all the bad >> weather. Being 770 ft up, the snow stayed around longer than it did even >> a few hundred yards down Gospel End Road. Then there was mud - I went up >> to my ankles in it in one place while dog-walking. >> >> On Wednesday I was as far up the tower as I dare to go, then yesterday I >> took the Hamptons down into the crypt to see the front of their Tamlyns' >> vault. Good job I don't have any posh clothes. Church itself is very >> presentable, but once you get into the 'backstage' areas, it's still >> dust-covered limewash. The Wednesday exploit was with an architectural >> historian who's revising Pevsner Staffs, for the All Saints' entry. No >> conclusion was reachable on the date of the tower interior. I couldn't >> help him with the architect and date of Dormston House, previously >> Sedgley Villa. I don't suppose anyone has anything on that? >> >> I've been very kindly lent some photos re the Swindells. Someone in the >> lender's family was housekeeper for the family in the 1920s, and the pics >> seem to be of around that date. I don't think anyone on the list is a >> descendant or a rellie? I'm scanning the pics for our records, with a >> copy to go down to Dudley Archives. Can send details if anyone thinks >> they might be interested. (Two of the church interior are stamped 1903 on >> the back.) >> >> Christine B >> >> >> >> >> ======================================== >> Message Received: Mar 05 2010, 11:36 AM >> From: "Gloria Hargreave" >> To: [email protected] >> Cc: >> Subject: [ENG-STS-SEDGLEY] Emails to List >> >> >> Paul, I watch patiently for queries to the List and relish the following >> flow of replies...it is such a great list and everyone is so helpful. >> We are educated by Christine B ,with her vast knowledge of the area, and >> people such as Carl Higgs, Satima, Tracy and so on....I have had so much >> help and so many mysteries thought about, stewed over and suggestions >> made...to help unravel my SMITHS and their peccadillos, by many of the >> Listers. This help is all invaluable . >> For the moment, the List is quiet, even I haven' t sent a query....still >> trying to get into research mode after the Christmas season...but no >> doubt, the emails will again flow soon...and we will all breathe a >> collective sigh at the prospect of learning more, being able to help >> someone, or even just enjoy the pleasure of reading all the emails. and >> the interesting replies. >> Bouquets to you all. >> Gloria >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without >> the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without >> the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > _________________________________________________________________ > Do you have a story that started on Hotmail? Tell us now > http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/195013117/direct/01/ > ------------------------------------- > The only List that specifically covers the whole of the Black Country. Run > by Black Country folk who were born and still live in the area. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Well, as an avid list reader, but not too often a contributer I apologise for not emailing more. Thing is, I love reading everyone's emails and queries and often reply off list if I can help so as not to bog down the list with topics that might not be of interest to others. But will enter more into joining in. Saying that, becoming the Staffs FreeREG coordinator takes up most of the spare time that I have and I will always put on the lists anything I think will be of interest or necessity (eg, March update details coming on over the weekend) So let me share this with you all as I'm certain you'll know exactly how my sister and I felt yesterday. Christine B was utterly wonderful and spent the morning with my sister and I, taking us round Sedgely pointing out areas of interest re our family search there. And to see in the church exactly where he and his family sat in their pew box was very special. And the real highlight was to go down into the crypt (surprisingly warm!) and actually be on the other side of a brick wall and only inches away from the remains of our relatives, Dr Anthony Tamlyn and family. Cannot tell you what that felt like and how privileged we are to have been that close to them physically. Does that make sense?!! Then our first visit to Dudley RO and found out - at last! exactly where their house had been situated in the High Street and saw building plans for it. (and at £35 annual rateable value was a VERY spiffy house!) So a truly memorable day and all thanks to a very special lister - Christine B. Our frustration of never findingany photos of him, his family or the house knows no bounds, but I think thats a feeling common to all of us! PS. I need more transcribers for Staffs please!!! Lesley FreeREG Staffordshire County Coordinator

Hi All The being of the week I ask if anyone could look on the 1841 census for a Mary and Joseph Taylor , many of you replied , and gave me great details of there children which was great , but it seens they died in 1837-38 at Tipton I am trying to find out how old they where , So can someone please help on this who has the buriel records , I cant remenber the proper name for these records but I think its the Natanial Buriel Index and has anyone with Taylors in there family from Tipton married any Hickmans , has I am still trying to sort that Cheers Cassy List Owner Griffiths , List Admin BC Wolverhampton , Potteries

Hi All Trying to find the death record of my gr grandmother I know where she is buried , and when but I cant find any records of her death Her name was Emily Franklin (Whitehouse ) she died in 1939 and she is buried at Roodend Graveyard Oldbury ,with her husband Thomas and two children at the time of her death she was living at Frazer Street Oldbury , what seems stranger is that I have never been able to find her wedding cert thou on the 1911 census she stated she had been married 27 years , she was born Oldbury in 1864 Can any body help please , me and Liz have looked with no luck unless she was vistering some one when she died Cheers Cassy List Owner Griffiths , List Admin BC Wolverhampton , Potteries

Hi Listers The Staffs BMD has been updated with the following records .... Deaths: 499 for Fenton, registers at Stoke-On-Trent (1837-1841) 1,000 for Hanley, registers at Stoke-On-Trent (1839-1843) regards Bill Many Thanks to you all for your hard work in making this possible..... ======================================================================== The Staffordshire BMD can be found at http://www.staffordshirebmd.org.uk and the West Midlands BMD at http://www.westmidlandsbmd.org.uk ========================================================================

It List is quite at the moment but it nornally is at this time of the year also at holiday times I am really busy with building work but I have a ton of paper work that I am trying to sort out and add the odd things to my family tree , while I am sorting it Cassy List Owner Griffiths , List Admin BC Wolverhampton , Potteries

Hi Paul I agree its a disgrace , and there are millions out of work who are bored to death and I am sure they would only be to glad to do something , I know its kept much tider if its lawns , but at least they should keep the head stone at the top Church graveyards are the families own responibity to keep, tidy but some of these graves are very old and the families have either died or moved away , I look after six of my families graves including gr gr grandparents and the churchyard at All Staint West Brom is a disgrace some times . we have even brought a petrol strimmer to clear the paths to get at the graves they are that over grown Handsworth , and Roodend graveyards are much more tidier but these are council owned Cheers Cassy Cassy List Owner Griffiths , List Admin BC Wolverhampton , Potteries ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Bennett" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]>; "Black Country Messages" <[email protected]>; "Sedgley Roots web" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 12:54 PM Subject: Re: [Black Country] [ENG-STS-SEDGLEY] Emails to List > > Christiana > > > > Would you know if Darkhouse Baptist Chapel in Coseley still has its > cemerty itact. It was looking very delapidated the last time I saw it. I > once asked the vicar if he had plans of who was buried there as I was > trying to find my grand parents grave, but he said they had been stolen. > Grave yards like that should be tended to and tided up. Not flattened > and grassed over. If there is ever a project to clean up the place I > would be there in a flash to help out. All my dads relations lived in > that area. He was born in Darkhouse lane and worked at the Cannon. His > mohers family lived in Siddons Road. > > > > Best wishes, > > > > Paul > >> From: [email protected] >> To: [email protected] >> Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 13:45:05 +0100 >> Subject: Re: [ENG-STS-SEDGLEY] Emails to List >> >> I have to say, much of my 'vast knowledge' comes via Ian, Carl, Satima, >> Tracy, etc etc, and Gloria herself, not to mention Trevor Genge and >> others locally. >> >> Personally, I'm trying to catch up in the garden after all the bad >> weather. Being 770 ft up, the snow stayed around longer than it did even >> a few hundred yards down Gospel End Road. Then there was mud - I went up >> to my ankles in it in one place while dog-walking. >> >> On Wednesday I was as far up the tower as I dare to go, then yesterday I >> took the Hamptons down into the crypt to see the front of their Tamlyns' >> vault. Good job I don't have any posh clothes. Church itself is very >> presentable, but once you get into the 'backstage' areas, it's still >> dust-covered limewash. The Wednesday exploit was with an architectural >> historian who's revising Pevsner Staffs, for the All Saints' entry. No >> conclusion was reachable on the date of the tower interior. I couldn't >> help him with the architect and date of Dormston House, previously >> Sedgley Villa. I don't suppose anyone has anything on that? >> >> I've been very kindly lent some photos re the Swindells. Someone in the >> lender's family was housekeeper for the family in the 1920s, and the pics >> seem to be of around that date. I don't think anyone on the list is a >> descendant or a rellie? I'm scanning the pics for our records, with a >> copy to go down to Dudley Archives. Can send details if anyone thinks >> they might be interested. (Two of the church interior are stamped 1903 on >> the back.) >> >> Christine B >> >> >> >> >> ======================================== >> Message Received: Mar 05 2010, 11:36 AM >> From: "Gloria Hargreave" >> To: [email protected] >> Cc: >> Subject: [ENG-STS-SEDGLEY] Emails to List >> >> >> Paul, I watch patiently for queries to the List and relish the following >> flow of replies...it is such a great list and everyone is so helpful. >> We are educated by Christine B ,with her vast knowledge of the area, and >> people such as Carl Higgs, Satima, Tracy and so on....I have had so much >> help and so many mysteries thought about, stewed over and suggestions >> made...to help unravel my SMITHS and their peccadillos, by many of the >> Listers. This help is all invaluable . >> For the moment, the List is quiet, even I haven' t sent a query....still >> trying to get into research mode after the Christmas season...but no >> doubt, the emails will again flow soon...and we will all breathe a >> collective sigh at the prospect of learning more, being able to help >> someone, or even just enjoy the pleasure of reading all the emails. and >> the interesting replies. >> Bouquets to you all. >> Gloria >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without >> the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without >> the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > _________________________________________________________________ > Do you have a story that started on Hotmail? 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Have searched Ancestry and couldn't find anything except a strange entry for a marriage of a Thomas Franklin in 1874 Birmingham to a Emily Paypell. Strange name. I have looked at the 'original' entry and it is a typed one - so I am just wondering if someone has mis-read or mis-typed an handwritten entry, although I reckon it would take quite a long stretch of the imagination to make that mistake. Yorkie

Paul, I see you're connected with Sedgley and I'm wondering if your Bennetts were connected with my Bennetts of Warwickshire & Nova Scotia. When you get a minute, have a look at what I've collected and pasted up at: http://www.pacefamilyhistory.info/ben/bennett.htm If I remember right, one of my grandfather Alfred Bennett's brothers going to Sedgeley. They were from around Coughton Hall * 2 ELIZABETH FLOWERS b Sep 22 1852 Court Street LEAMINGTON, Warwicks d Jul 6 1933 Birmingham Age at death 80 Elizabeth was born in Leamington and her father moved the family to Birmingham in 1870. She married Edward Bennett when she was 17 and he was much older than her. + EDWARD BENNETT b: Abt. 1850 SAMBORNE, Warwickshire m Oct 2 1870 BIRMINGHAM St.Peter Dale End, Warwick d 1893 Age at death 43 est o 3 WILLIAM BENNETT b: Abt. 1870 o 3 WALTER BENNETT b: Abt. 1874 From 1891 census we learn that WALTER 17 was Living at 8 Back 50 Tindal, Ladywood, Birmingham with his uncle & aunt SAMUEL & LILLY MORGAN nee FLOWERS and his grandmother MARY ANN FLOWERS nee STOPP WALTER BENNETT was to have gone to the Boer War (which would be the second of the Boer Wars from 1899-1902) and he is also supposed to have done his bit in WW1 o 3 CHARLES BENNETT b: Abt. 1880 o 3 GEORGE FREDERICK BENNETT b Jun 15, 1884 BIRMINGHAM d: 1973 WALLACE, Nova Scotia Age at death: 89 est. + MARGARET BELL CARD b 1883 Nova Scotia m abt 1902 in Methodist Manse - WALLACE, Nova Scotia d 1975 WALLACE, Nova Scotia Age: 92 est. GEORGE FREDERICK BENNETT told me, personally in 1965 he came to CANADA in 1895 before my grandfather ALFRED, his half - brother was born. - GTPace - GEORGE came to CANADA as a BERNARDO or MIDDLEMORE child first to PEI. He was sick and to be returned at Halifax where he met with a ROSS family from Wallace, NS who took a liking to him and needing farm help, took and cared for him. George did well with these people at Wallace. As you can see, he had a family and we are thankful of so much. GTPace I was brought out from Brum during the war and lived in NS with them. o 3 JOHN BENNETT b Abt 1886 o 3 ELLEN ELIZABETH BENNETT (aunt Nellie) b Abt. 1887 + LIPSETT (given name not known) d Plymouth o 3 HARRY BENNETT b: Abt. 1888 o 3 ALFRED BENNETT b: Abt. 1898 Birmingham d: 1976 in Birmingham Age at death: 78 est. + AGNES HAYES b Nov 13 1899 Birmingham m Dec 24, 1919 in St. Asaphs Church, Birmingham d Sep 1996 Birmingham Age at death: 96 est. Cheers, Gord Pace

In a message dated 05/03/2010 16:22:48 GMT Standard Time, [email protected] writes: Trying to find the death record of my gr grandmother I know where she is buried , and when but I cant find any records of her death Cassy there is a Emily Franklin death recorded in Birmingham in 1940. Could this be yours? Yorkie

Afternoon All, I've decided to put the lists back to their original settings in that all replies will now go to the list instead of the sender. Many listers see a question which may help them but never see the replies, and for those looking back in the archives it's a hopeless task tracking down someone who has probably changed their email address. Most other lists do this, hence their seemingly "busy" status. One thing to remember now is that if you don't want to reply to the list as a whole, you must physically make sure that your reply goes to sender. In most popular email clients the simpler way is to firstly select reply all and then delete the list address. It's actually just a reverse of how the list is working at present. Here's to many less brick walls this year! Dave Wednesbury England Listowner: The Black Country, Staffordshire, The Potteries, Ironbridge, Leek & Lowe, Wolverhampton etc.,

Christiana Would you know if Darkhouse Baptist Chapel in Coseley still has its cemerty itact. It was looking very delapidated the last time I saw it. I once asked the vicar if he had plans of who was buried there as I was trying to find my grand parents grave, but he said they had been stolen. Grave yards like that should be tended to and tided up. Not flattened and grassed over. If there is ever a project to clean up the place I would be there in a flash to help out. All my dads relations lived in that area. He was born in Darkhouse lane and worked at the Cannon. His mohers family lived in Siddons Road. Best wishes, Paul > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 13:45:05 +0100 > Subject: Re: [ENG-STS-SEDGLEY] Emails to List > > I have to say, much of my 'vast knowledge' comes via Ian, Carl, Satima, Tracy, etc etc, and Gloria herself, not to mention Trevor Genge and others locally. > > Personally, I'm trying to catch up in the garden after all the bad weather. Being 770 ft up, the snow stayed around longer than it did even a few hundred yards down Gospel End Road. Then there was mud - I went up to my ankles in it in one place while dog-walking. > > On Wednesday I was as far up the tower as I dare to go, then yesterday I took the Hamptons down into the crypt to see the front of their Tamlyns' vault. Good job I don't have any posh clothes. Church itself is very presentable, but once you get into the 'backstage' areas, it's still dust-covered limewash. The Wednesday exploit was with an architectural historian who's revising Pevsner Staffs, for the All Saints' entry. No conclusion was reachable on the date of the tower interior. I couldn't help him with the architect and date of Dormston House, previously Sedgley Villa. I don't suppose anyone has anything on that? > > I've been very kindly lent some photos re the Swindells. Someone in the lender's family was housekeeper for the family in the 1920s, and the pics seem to be of around that date. I don't think anyone on the list is a descendant or a rellie? I'm scanning the pics for our records, with a copy to go down to Dudley Archives. Can send details if anyone thinks they might be interested. (Two of the church interior are stamped 1903 on the back.) > > Christine B > > > > > ======================================== > Message Received: Mar 05 2010, 11:36 AM > From: "Gloria Hargreave" > To: [email protected] > Cc: > Subject: [ENG-STS-SEDGLEY] Emails to List > > > Paul, I watch patiently for queries to the List and relish the following flow of replies...it is such a great list and everyone is so helpful. > We are educated by Christine B ,with her vast knowledge of the area, and people such as Carl Higgs, Satima, Tracy and so on....I have had so much help and so many mysteries thought about, stewed over and suggestions made...to help unravel my SMITHS and their peccadillos, by many of the Listers. This help is all invaluable . > For the moment, the List is quiet, even I haven' t sent a query....still trying to get into research mode after the Christmas season...but no doubt, the emails will again flow soon...and we will all breathe a collective sigh at the prospect of learning more, being able to help someone, or even just enjoy the pleasure of reading all the emails. and the interesting replies. > Bouquets to you all. > Gloria > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ Do you have a story that started on Hotmail? Tell us now http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/195013117/direct/01/

Hi All, Strangely there are as many subscribers to the BC list as there were ten years ago, we must have all gone quiet for a time. As far as Staffordshire goes, it's ticking along quite well at the moment, with more subscribers than ten years ago (although the total of posts are down, good quality though). However on looking at the Staffordshire membership list, you aren't on it Paul, if you ain't there you don't get mails. Dave Wednesbury England Listowner: The Black Country, Staffordshire, The Potteries, Ironbridge, Leek & Lowe, Wolverhampton etc., -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Bennett Sent: 05 March 2010 10:38 To: Black Country Messages; Sedgley Roots web Subject: [Black Country] from what I started Still reading thru comments from my original email yesterday. I realise now if I look at a site and no one has used it for days or weeks then I think its pointless using it as no one is looking at it. We like choice but maybe sometimes there is too much. All spread to thinly. Just thought I haven't had any messages from staffs roots web for ages....oh dear and so it goes on.... Paul in Poole

Still reading thru comments from my original email yesterday. I realise now if I look at a site and no one has used it for days or weeks then I think its pointless using it as no one is looking at it. We like choice but maybe sometimes there is too much. All spread to thinly. Just thought I haven't had any messages from staffs roots web for ages....oh dear and so it goes on.... Paul in Poole _________________________________________________________________ Do you have a story that started on Hotmail? Tell us now http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/195013117/direct/01/

An interesting article. I suppose that I regard Mailing Lists as the primitive form of Social Networking. The concept is now quite old (in IT terms). They evolved when personal communication by computer was not generally available on-line (there was no Internet). Another earlier concept was off-line conferencing. I (still) belong to an off-line conferencing service (CIX). CIX hosts hundreds (possibly thousands?) of ongoing conferences, on every conceivable topic, including, for example: Genealogy, Gardening, Satellite Television, Learning Spanish, Parenting for Armed Forces Personnel. The traffic in these conferences has also dwindled away over the last few years; most of the conferences have last message dates of at least six months ago, the great bulk of them have last message dates over several years old. I find the decline to be quite saddening as the conferences had a very "matey" and home-spun feel about them. Presumably, the Rootsweb and other Mailing Lists will have to migrate to the modern SN platform. I do not have a clear idea of how Black Country Family History would look on, say, Facebook as I no experience of modern SN. But we should really be addressing the issue of migration right now, otherwise the lists will simply die of old age. Ron S Ron S

Dear Listers Thanks to all that replied to my earlier quesion about how many folks are visiting these sites, It was most interesting to read all your comments. I did take a look at the umber of hits and Feb was very low 4 I think and 2 posts were from Lesley Hampton telling all about the Free Reg site downloads. So I need not worry about not receiving any emails from you lot out there. Just wondering who I should ask if I can pop somewhere for a break as you seem to be all over the place, North Devon, USA and Crete....... Thanks again for entering into my little debate you small band of brothers and sisters. Signing off as its past my bed time. Paul in Poole, Dorset which was absolutely beautiful today. Happy searching _________________________________________________________________ We want to hear all your funny, exciting and crazy Hotmail stories. Tell us now http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/195013117/direct/01/