Perhaps the recent hiccough with Rootsweb  lists has done us all a favour, causing us to look at why the lists are generally quieter than they used to be. The impatient have switched their interest to the On-Line Tree sites which are numerous, so please don't focus all your wrath on Ancestry.  Leave those folk to fill their days copying each other's trees and ignore them.  It only makes you angry and seldom does anything to advance your own genealogy.  That's my philosophy anyway. But having said that, I want to thank Ancestry and Family Search and all the others for the scanned images they are increasingly making available of the original records.  This is the next revolution in genealogy which is just starting, and I understand that Family Search have a plan to replace all their films with scanned online images in a remarkably short time-frame.   So what role is left for the Rootsweb lists.  I would like to see the content broadened to include useful tips or research techniques alongside the postings about problems.   The tips might not apply exclusively to Lincolnshire, but if they are potentially useful to Lincs searchers I hope they wouldn't offend our List Admin.   Here's one from me which may be a little ironic since Ancestry has been getting a blast lately. Have you noticed that if do not click but just hover your pointer over an item in a search results list on, say, a census search, that Ancestry will show you quite a lot of information about age occupation address and who else was present in the household and their ages, even though you don't have an Ancestry subscription.   Good searching to you all,  Mary in NZ

Sorry Mary, this is Bazza ( Barry Wilson ) what a hornets nest I seem to have been part of, and how great it is to see some familiar names on line, all communication is Good, so keep it up Please, all that has been mentioned is true for those who wrote it, and should be looked at properly, not criticized at, most of us are just trying to find out about our own families, not make a business out of inquires. I am an O.A.P. with only a basic pension to live on which does not leave very much to pay for information, and that is why myself in particular am always looking for the free sites, for information, which as I have said have mostly all been swallowed up by the big company's / sites, even if some out there do not believe it, it is never the less true. Going back to Mary Skipworth if I may, what she suggested is what is wanted and it used to be the norm in the past, ( remember Renee ) until she was more or less hounded off site for having the nerve to give information for free instead selling what she knew. I have only just picked up my family search again after an illness, but I do not hold out much hope of getting far, if the information is only available from money sources / sites. Warm regards to you all Bazza in Lincoln On 19 March 2016 at 08:04, Mary Skipworth via <eng-lincsgen@rootsweb.com> wrote: > Perhaps the recent hiccough with Rootsweb lists has done us all a favour, > causing us to look at why the lists are generally quieter than they used to > be. > The impatient have switched their interest to the On-Line Tree sites which > are numerous, so please don't focus all your wrath on Ancestry. Leave > those folk to fill their days copying each other's trees and ignore them. > It only makes you angry and seldom does anything to advance your own > genealogy. That's my philosophy anyway. > But having said that, I want to thank Ancestry and Family Search and all > the others for the scanned images they are increasingly making available of > the original records. This is the next revolution in genealogy which is > just starting, and I understand that Family Search have a plan to replace > all their films with scanned online images in a remarkably short > time-frame. > So what role is left for the Rootsweb lists. I would like to see the > content broadened to include useful tips or research techniques alongside > the postings about problems. The tips might not apply exclusively to > Lincolnshire, but if they are potentially useful to Lincs searchers I hope > they wouldn't offend our List Admin. > Here's one from me which may be a little ironic since Ancestry has been > getting a blast lately. > Have you noticed that if do not click but just hover your pointer over an > item in a search results list on, say, a census search, that Ancestry will > show you quite a lot of information about age occupation address and who > else was present in the household and their ages, even though you don't > have an Ancestry subscription. > Good searching to you all, Mary in NZ > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-LINCSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >