Hello and Happy New Year to all! Some of you may receive two copies of this, since I'm sending to both the FIANNA-L and the list from the last class. Sorry about duplications. THIS IS THE LAST TIME I'LL SEND TO THE CLASS LIST! If you were in the class and haven't joined FIANNA-L, do so NOW!! Don't get lost in cyberspace! :( We want you to continue with us! :) :) Marthe, please count this as notification that our study group has now published our portion of the study guides! :) Some folks are really interested and are continuing to submit more (!) material :) and we expect that the guide will continue to grow and refine itself over time. :) Our Hideaway has grown, a lot! We now have over SIXTY pages (counting the form for signup for surname and the form for signup for profile, plus the thankyou pages for those forms!) We have over a megabyte of CODING, not counting music and pictures! The pages that are used to sign up for fians, and the listing of who was in a fian are not up. (I'll add a column to the ID's on the group33.html page for the fians..) And not included in the count. The only page that is duplicated is the Front Page, there is a public front page at index.html and our private front page at http://www.geocities.com/~fiannag/findex.html All of that means we have A LOT OF MATERIAL available, hopefully most of it pretty good :) There are places to sign up to be notified if a page changes. This is a free service. You do not get spam from the folks that run it, just a notice when changes are made. Please PLEASE, sign up!! Then chirho won't feel like she has to shake the list every time there's something new and good there for you! She still has a lot of good stuff in the editor waiting to be put up that has been sent by various folk, but was pushing to get the class project finished and the site moved. So there WILL be changes to pages, added pages,, etc. The signup service will let you know when that happens! The only way to know about changes to the guide, profiles, surnames, book nook, or fun pages is to sign up on them. All other changes will change the Hideaway Front Page (same changes on public front page for those strangers who wander in) Soooooooo that means five or six places to sign up, if you're REALLY interested.... and PLEASE signup on the PRIVATE Hideaway front page, rather than the public. That way we'll be able to see how many strangers ask for notices :) We will be having a fair number of strangers (folks not on FIANNA-L) wandering through since we opened the surname page and it is getting referred to by various other sites... Anyone who wants to advertise the site (by signing up for links, etc., PLEASE let me know, so we don't bombard folks out there! Maybe we could have a volunteer for "off list publicity" to coordinate that and submission to search engines, etc? The "Private pages" are NOT accessible to search engines and are NOT to be linked to... they are JUST for FIANNA-L folk :) :) As you go through and gaze at our treasures, take a look at the counters. They have been updated to reflect their count from before the move. There are lots of pages no one but chirho :( has ever looked at. She wonders whether you folks really want a current group page and logs for classes... and is not going to answer any questions (in the next class) that are answered already in the find.html pages! Speaking of which, the next class starts January 12 at VU. There is a fee of $5.00 for the class itself and a fee to register for $10. If you take other classes they are only $5.00 each and the registration fee is only once per quarter. There WILL be a class in IRC for those who want to increase their skill there :) ... and we should do an IRC-athon EARLY in the classes ! Will be putting up the IRC material next week and work toward an IRC-athon in January !! (and of course I'll try to get folks to see our public Hideaway and Guide from those pages !) And Diana Hanson's free classes are moving to Rootsweb. Will correct all the URL's that refer to IrelandGenWeb and those free classes as that all gets straightened out over the next week or two. In the meantime some of the URL's work and some don't....Brian Leaverich and Diana and some other folk are busy getting the move cleaned up, and she's still jaunting about in Ireland, of course! Apparently the need to move was known but it had been planned for after her return and things just forced it to happen now... Well, I have rambled and ranted long enough! Go, browse, enjoy and share the public stuff! And don't forget to stop by the pub (teashop) for some fun!! Again, HAPPY NEW YEAR to all, and many more to come :) peace. chirho . Anne Boyes boyes@gardener.com http://www.geocities.com/~hoseahouse/genealogy/