Send an e-mail query to the Manchester Evening News 'In Touch' section Mike Morris Toronto Canada >________________________________ > From: eddie lunt <eddie.lunt@ntlworld.com> >To: eng-manchester@rootsweb.com >Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2013 9:06:50 AM >Subject: [ENG-MAN] Fw: Roy Swann > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "eddie lunt" <eddie.lunt@ntlworld.com> >To: <Eng-Manchester@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2013 5:20 PM >> Subject: Telephone Directory 1975 to 1977 Manchester. > > Does anyone know where I can find an address for someone living in Chorlton > cum Hardy, Manchester area? The name of the person is or was Roy Swann <snip> >
I would second this. I put a message in the MEN 'In Touch' a few years back and managed to find some cousins of my dad's he had last seen in 1958. Sadly, my dad had died before I contacted the cousins, but the rest of the family has kept in touch and we get together for a pub lunch about every 18 months and exchange Christmas cards and the occasional phone call. I would recommend everyone to try to trace living relatives before its too late. Joanne -----Original Message----- From: eng-manchester-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:eng-manchester-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Mike Morris Sent: Monday, 25 February 2013 1:55 AM To: eng-manchester@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [ENG-MAN] Fw: Roy Swann Send an e-mail query to the Manchester Evening News 'In Touch' section Mike Morris Toronto Canada >________________________________ > From: eddie lunt <eddie.lunt@ntlworld.com> >To: eng-manchester@rootsweb.com >Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2013 9:06:50 AM >Subject: [ENG-MAN] Fw: Roy Swann > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "eddie lunt" <eddie.lunt@ntlworld.com> >To: <Eng-Manchester@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2013 5:20 PM >> Subject: Telephone Directory 1975 to 1977 Manchester. > > Does anyone know where I can find an address for someone living in Chorlton > cum Hardy, Manchester area? The name of the person is or was Roy Swann <snip> > :-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~: Except for personal messages, please post replies to the list. Other people can learn from them! Be sure list mail is in PLAIN TEXT. Please SNIP when replying. Buy or sell family research items on the GEN-MAT-UKI mailing list. No fees! :-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~: ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-MANCHESTER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
From: "Joanne Humphrey" <joanne1humphrey@gmail.com> > I would second this. I put a message in the MEN 'In Touch' a few > years back and managed to find some cousins of my dad's he had last seen in > 1958. Sadly, my dad had died before I contacted the cousins, but the rest > of the family has kept in touch and we get together for a pub lunch about > every 18 months and exchange Christmas cards and the occasional phone call. I > would recommend everyone to try to trace living relatives before itŽs too > late.> Could I heartily second, third and fourth this point!!! It's an issue on which I feel very strongly and have frequently written about. I do not understand why some people get so prissy and pretentious about their privacy and it drives me slightly potty when I see family trees where a decision has been taken to withhold any information on living people. In my view, family historians are the last people who should be exercising censorship. I've seen it even in relation to some very famous people who really cannot expect to have the details of their ancestry protected and withheld. Rootsweb, technically, has a policy of not permitting mention of living persons on their lists, which I personally oppose and ignore when it suits me, especially when it concerns someone famous. Surely family history is just as much about the living as the dead and how are we to make the links and connections to the past unless we can communicate with living relatives who may well have vital information to impart? Who knows what lies out there in the form of old family documents, wills, letters, certificates, books, heirlooms, etc which you may be missing out on? As Joanne so rightly says, don't leave it until it's too late! I've met some lovely distant cousins through contacting them out of the blue and we've become lifelong friends. After all, if you approach someone and they're not interested, they always have the right not to respond, don't they? At least you've tried and if they don't want to know, that's their prerogative. -- Roy Stockdill Genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer Famous family trees blog: http://blog.findmypast.co.uk/tag/roy-stockdill/ "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE