Hello, Anthony I agree entirely with the content of your email below! I am researching 4 of my mother's family lines in Ireland (McQueen, Haberlin, White, Wildridge) with mixed fortunes! I too have been considering Skype, and how it may help us in our genealogy research. I run an Apple Mac G5 running Mac OS 10.4 and have a 2Mb broadband connection. I have just downloaded Skype for the Mac, have bought a webcam and combined headphones / mic, and hope to find time over the next 2 to 3 weeks to get this all up and running! But I am interested in your ideas! Kind regards Graham Graham Bisset [email protected] On 14 Apr 2007, at 13:12, Anthony J. Roche wrote: > Hi All, > > I have been thinking for some time now of using the Skype system to > increase our contact on the Dublin list. > > For those who don't know Skype herewith a brief description:- > > It is basically what is called 'voice over I.P' or VOIP if you have > an Internet connection, which all of us have, and broadband, which > most of us have, the all we need is to download the Skype software > and this makes it possible to talk (and even see, if we have a web > cam) each other in real time. > > The obvious drawback is that we are a community with such time > variation that getting everyone interested on line at a suitable time > will be difficult, but I am confident that we can still do a lot. > > This is not a proposal to downgrade the list in any way - rather to > make it more attractive by giving a personal touch. > > If anyone is interested in experimenting with this medium of > communication get back to me either through the list or off > list. Lets use technology to make the Dublin list a setter of trends > not a follower! > > Regards > > Anthony J. Roche > Visit my home page at http://homepages.iol.ie/~ajroche/ > Good Dublin Links at http://www.rootsweb.com/~irldubli/ > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRL-DUBLIN- > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >