On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 09:25:49 -0500, singhals <[email protected]> wrote: >Steve Hayes wrote: >> 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) Well, you could always start one. The trouble with the boards is that you would have to have as many of them as you have surnames in a Tiny Tafel, and checking them all is a schlep. But you can have all your main research interests in ONE Tiny Tafel, and anyone who's interested can come back to you. There are lots of thingsyou can do with Tiny Tafels - post them in newsgroups (though not too often), mailingf lists, put them on a web page. There is nothing about them than confines their use to 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 Fri, 12 Mar 2004 09:25:49 -0500, singhals <[email protected]> wrote: > > >>Steve Hayes wrote: >> >>>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) > > > Well, you could always start one. > > The trouble with the boards is that you would have to have as many of them as > you have surnames in a Tiny Tafel, and checking them all is a schlep. But you > can have all your main research interests in ONE Tiny Tafel, and anyone who's > interested can come back to you. There are lots of thingsyou can do with Tiny > Tafels - post them in newsgroups (though not too often), mailingf lists, put > them on a web page. There is nothing about them than confines their use to > BBSs. *JUST* for the record, Steve, (g) you can go to any one of the boards, do a search for messages posted this past week/month/whatever on All-Boards, display in chrono and read the hits from one place. And if that didn't make sense (GBG) visit a board and do some research on the search screen. (DG&R) Cheryl