On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 20:07:30 GMT, "Tom Morris" <[email protected]> wrote: >"Steve Hayes" <[email protected]> wrote in message >news:[email protected] > >> A Tiny Tafel is a condensed list of the surnames you aere researching, >with >> information about the place and date of each line where it begins and >ends, >> and an indication of your level of interest in that line. > >Did this post get stuck in a time warp someplace? > >Shouldn't the description begin "A Tiny Tafel was used back in the days when >people communicated via BBS?" Does anyone still use them for anything? Yes, I use them for sharing research interests with others, and find them more effective than any other method. I get more response from Tiny Tafels than from the Roots Surname List (RSL), Rootsweb message boards or just about anything else along those lines. And it's certainly a lot more effective than the "surnames in signature lines" that so many people still use, even though they were used on BBSs. -- Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7734/stevesig.htm E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk

Steve Hayes wrote: > On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 20:07:30 GMT, "Tom Morris" > <[email protected]> wrote: > > >>"Steve Hayes" <[email protected]> wrote in message >>news:[email protected] >> >> >>>A Tiny Tafel is a condensed list of the surnames you aere researching, >> >>with >> >>>information about the place and date of each line where it begins and >> >>ends, >> >>>and an indication of your level of interest in that line. >> >>Did this post get stuck in a time warp someplace? >> >>Shouldn't the description begin "A Tiny Tafel was used back in the days when >>people communicated via BBS?" Does anyone still use them for anything? > > > Yes, I use them for sharing research interests with others, and find them more > effective than any other method. I get more response from Tiny Tafels than > from the Roots Surname List (RSL), Rootsweb message boards or just about > anything else along those lines. And it's certainly a lot more effective than > the "surnames in signature lines" that so many people still use, even though > they were used on BBSs. And one whale of a fine way to shoot oneself in the foot, names in .sigs are. Nothing quite so embarrassing as getting 100 hits on your-surname-here, and finding out 99 of 'em are from your own sig line. :( TTs were kind of fun, but the surnames I search don't have many searchers on line, so I didn't get many hits. Even now, one of those names is so rare there isn't even an ancestry message board. (GBG) Cheryl