I've had info at Freepages since 1998. Some of my pages are that old in fact. Mostly I've uploaded "book" reports of linked descendants generated by PAF. That makes a home page for each report, so I learned basic HTML to be able to develop one master home page to rule them all, and do other things. As Tracy says, it certainly helps to know a bit of simple HTML if you are doing webpages. Basic HTML is easy to learn. You can have your first page up and running in just a few minutes. I still remember how gobsmacked I was to discover how easy a simple page of text is to create when previously i thought it must be an arcane science. Not so. I learned very basic HTML online at this now seriously old website http://www.math.unm.edu/writingHTML/tut/index.html but there must be others out there. These days you can use software to create a website without having to figure out the nuts and bolts of a lot of HTML commands, but I think it still helps to know the very basic nuts and bolts. If nothing else it will greatly inform one's searches on the internet when it comes to exploring a website in certain circumstances (eg folder structure). The utility of the PAF "book" style presentation on my Freepages is that anyone googling for a particular name can find it on my pages. Not many use my guestbook, most contact me directly after finding someone on my pages because it is obvious from the context that we have some kind of connection. I need to start updating and using my Freepages properly to present what I have done over the years, now that I have deliberately slowed my research (about 29 years' worth). I may need to make use of other websites, eg to archive photos, large files, databases at searching sites, and link to them from Freepages. Peter -----Original Message----- From: Tracy Pilet Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2014 9:15 AM To: Rootsweb NZ Rootsweb Subject: Re: [nz] Family Tree Website Hosting I also use RootsWeb to host my site<http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~onmymothersside/>and it has been a solid and reliable platform for years now (more reliable than its owner who needs to update it sometime soon!). As you can see from the sites of the others who have posted about it, and my site, it allows for a variety of approaches to displaying content - you're not constrained by templates or too many rules. On the other hand, you do need to have some basic skills in web publishing to make your site attractive and easy to use. If you decide to go down the RootsWeb route (see what I did there!) my advice is to look at lots of other examples of peoples' pages first, identify the bits you like and 'design' your site on paper before creating it. Much easier to start with a structure in mind than try to change it later on (found out the hard way). Tracy -----Original Message----- From: new-zealand-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto: new-zealand-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Bryan P Sent: Monday, 7 April 2014 3:52 p.m. To: Rootsweb NZ Rootsweb Subject: [nz] Family Tree Website Hosting I'm wondering whether people have experience with any website hosters in NZ for family history, and if they could advise on the best/better? I presently use an ISP's homepages which is running out of space. Please email me personally if you wish. Regards, Bryan Sent from Windows Mail The List Guidelines http://new-zealand-l.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NEW-ZEALAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message The List Guidelines http://new-zealand-l.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NEW-ZEALAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi all, Many thanks for help. At this stage I am going for the Warren photographer in Napier as original photo came from lady living there with Mary Latchmore in 1931. Noeleen.

I also use RootsWeb to host my site<http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~onmymothersside/>and it has been a solid and reliable platform for years now (more reliable than its owner who needs to update it sometime soon!). As you can see from the sites of the others who have posted about it, and my site, it allows for a variety of approaches to displaying content - you're not constrained by templates or too many rules. On the other hand, you do need to have some basic skills in web publishing to make your site attractive and easy to use. If you decide to go down the RootsWeb route (see what I did there!) my advice is to look at lots of other examples of peoples' pages first, identify the bits you like and 'design' your site on paper before creating it. Much easier to start with a structure in mind than try to change it later on (found out the hard way). Tracy -----Original Message----- From: new-zealand-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto: new-zealand-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Bryan P Sent: Monday, 7 April 2014 3:52 p.m. To: Rootsweb NZ Rootsweb Subject: [nz] Family Tree Website Hosting I'm wondering whether people have experience with any website hosters in NZ for family history, and if they could advise on the best/better? I presently use an ISP's homepages which is running out of space. Please email me personally if you wish. Regards, Bryan Sent from Windows Mail The List Guidelines http://new-zealand-l.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NEW-ZEALAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Helen The only way is to unsubscribe with your current address, and re-subscribe with your Firefox address. However, it looks to me as if you have a Yahoo address, which you use through Outlook Express, and not an actual OE address. Instructions to unsub are at the bottom of this message, and all messages to the list. Ruth in Hampshire > Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 21:49:27 -0700 > From: hennymac1941@yahoo.co.nz > To: NEW-ZEALAND@rootsweb.com > Subject: [nz] changing Rootsweb lists > > Hi Can someone please tell me v e r y s l o w l y how I change my Rootsweb mailing lists email address from my Outlook Express email addresses to my Firefox address? Another sorting out from my XP computer > Helen McNamara > > > The List Guidelines > > http://new-zealand-l.blogspot.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NEW-ZEALAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hello All I have just added the Births, marriages and deaths of May 1983. do email for a newspaper copy of anything you find quoting the date of the paper and the snippet number. Beverley Evans Christchurch NZ http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~ashleigh/1870-1908/1983.May.Christchurch.Press.BMD.html

Thanks everyone for the input. How do you get Google and Bing to know who you are on Rootsweb? Olwyn’s site came up. But others I’ve found don’t register. Wendy, how do you get your site recognised? My present homepages site is in the first 10 results of a search. Try Parrott or Fitzpatrick family. For me people searching names on search engines is the most important aspect of internet genealogy. A couple I tried on Rootsweb didn’t show up in the first 10 pages of results. Unfortunately I cannot afford the luxury of a paid domain and hosting, so I may have to go with Rootsweb. Regards, Bryan Sent from Windows Mail

Hi Can someone please tell me v e r y s l o w l y how I change my Rootsweb mailing lists email address from my Outlook Express email addresses to my Firefox address? Another sorting out from my XP computer Helen McNamara

I'm hoping anyone with advice for Bryan will please share it on the list as Wendy has done. There must be several of us with similar questions. Judith On 7/04/2014 3:52 p.m., Bryan P wrote: > I’m wondering whether people have experience with any website hosters in NZ for family history, and if they could advise on the best/better? I presently use an ISP’s homepages which is running out of space. Please email me personally if you wish. > > > Regards, > Bryan > >

I use Rootsweb's Freepages. As the name implies, it's free! And it is not reliant on our ISP, which could change at any time should we get a better deal elsewhere. http://accounts.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index.cgi?op=show&page=freagree.htm You are not restricted to genealogy there. Within your own account, you have 11 folders for a variety of topics, which you can use or not as you choose. My pages are at http://freepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wendyh65/ Hope this helps. :-) Wendy Bryan P said the following on 7/04/2014 3:52 p.m.: > I’m wondering whether people have experience with any website hosters in NZ for family history, and if they could advise on the best/better? I presently use an ISP’s homepages which is running out of space. Please email me personally if you wish. > > > > > > > Regards, > Bryan

I am looking for descendants of Clifton Worsley WINTERINGHAM MS/3349 and Eveline Ada Gladys nee EVANS (nurse QAINSR). Clifton and Eveline both served in the Imperial Forces, married in England and emigrated to NZ after WW1. Also descendants of Ernest Spencer SWINDELLS 3/958 Trooper, and Vera nee ANDERSON (nurse). Ernest served in NZ Army, Vera was a nurse in the Imperial Forces. They married in NZ in 1921. Information is needed for our Waihi Cemetery walk on Anzac Day. Thanks Robyn Ramsey

I agree with Wendy. I have used use Rootsweb's Freepages since 1998. The FreePages sites are used primarily by individuals and small associations. The only draw back I see is the roots ancestry banner that you have to have on the pages and some people are nervous about their AUP. But it is the best deal at the moment. It is free. http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/rootsweb/aup.html http://accounts.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nzbound/ I also like the search engine and the guestbook on the site. Olwyn NZ Bound - heading for the Fairlie Show. http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nzlscant/ "The world begins to feel very small when one finds one can get half round it in three months." Samuel Butler, January 27 1860, on arrival at Lyttelton, NZ from London on "The Roman Emperor" which sailed September 1859. He'd originally been booked on the "Burmah", which disappeared without trace. From: Bryan P <bryannp@slingshot.co.nz> Subject: [nz] Family Tree Website Hosting Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 03:52:12 +0000 I'm wondering whether people have experience with any website hosters in NZ for family history, and if they could advise on the best/better? I presently use an ISP's homepages which is running out of space. Please email me personally if you wish. Regards, Bryan

Dear Moira, The link to old NZ newspapers online is here: http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast Unfortunately they finish in 1945, so they're too early for most of your search. The era you're looking at isn't covered well by online newspapers - there is Newztext but they are mainly more recent than you need: http://www.knowledge-basket.co.nz/newztext/welcome.html Old NZ photos are covered by Timeframes at the National Library: http://natlib.govt.nz/items?utf8=%E2%9C%93&text=timeframes or by Digital NZ - http://www.digitalnz.org/ There is also Auckland Heritage: http://www.aucklandcity.govt.nz/dbtw-wpd/HeritageImages/index.htm Hope this helps in some way - Jeanette ----- Original Message ----- From: "M Doherty" <mo1rauk@yahoo.com> To: <new-zealand@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, April 07, 2014 3:18 AM Subject: [nz] CUMMER (KUMMER) family, Otorohanga and Otahuhu Hello list Perhaps someone could point me in the right direction for online sources to find any NZ newspaper mentions and/or photos of Albert and Angela CUMMER, especially of her while in the Otorohanga area. I have BDMs, burials and probates already. As I am in the UK I am unable to visit NZ libraries or archives. Albert CUMMER, a Seed Merchant living at Otorohanga, married Angela SULLIVAN, a nurse, in 1938 at Mount Eden Baptist Church, Auckland. When he died in 1949 he was described as a Nurseryman. When she died in 1961 she was living at Otahuhu and is buried with her husband in Otorohanga Cemetery. Her obituary mentions that a guard of honour was formed by members of the N.Z.R.N.A. and W.S.R.S.A. at her funeral service in Otorohanga. She was an honorary member of the Te Kuiti Branch of N.Z.R.N.A. and transferred to the Otorohanga Branch in 1959. She volunteered to give nursing assistance at the time of the Napier earthquake. She was an active member of the W.S.R.S.A. She was instrumental in forming the St. John Ambulance Brigade in Otorohanga. Thank you Moira The List Guidelines http://new-zealand-l.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NEW-ZEALAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I’m wondering whether people have experience with any website hosters in NZ for family history, and if they could advise on the best/better? I presently use an ISP’s homepages which is running out of space. Please email me personally if you wish. Regards, Bryan Sent from Windows Mail

Also a probate, held in Archives NZ, 1968, Wellington Branch, under the name, WINIFRED Elsie Forbes. Marina -----Original Message----- From: Allan Steel Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2014 3:36 PM To: Helen Jennings ; NZ ROOTSWEB mail list Subject: Re: [nz] Winifred FORBES She is recorded in Wellington cremations dying 24/3/1968 aged 73. Born 23/1/1895.Maybe Wellington? Listed as Winnifred Elsie Forbes, born to Jane and George. Went to school at Clyde Quay, Wellington. Father was Captain Forbes. note spelling of Winnifred. Allan -----Original Message----- From: Helen Jennings Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2014 3:16 PM To: NZ ROOTSWEB mail list Subject: [nz] Winifred FORBES Winifred Forbes born in 1885 going by the NZDBM & Died 1968 NZBDM. Would anyone know where abouts she was born or died please . Tried death Cd but not even listed I don't think she ever married I know we may have to get certs but any help beforehand would be wonderful Thank you Helen The List Guidelines http://new-zealand-l.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NEW-ZEALAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2014.0.4355 / Virus Database: 3722/7306 - Release Date: 04/05/14 The List Guidelines http://new-zealand-l.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NEW-ZEALAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi Helen & All: She is on the Burial Locator CD; ie it is safer to look for a surname rather than specifying the full name. And the WCC website says Winifred Mabel Forbes died aged 67y on 8/6/1967, service (crematorium) 12/6/1967. http://wellington.govt.nz/services/community-and-culture/cemeteries/cemeteries-search The Burial Locator CD also has a Winnifred Elsie Forbes (also WCC ie Wellington), died 24/3/1968, cremated 26/3/1968. Source Karori Cemetery Office Surname FORBES Given Names Winifred Mabel Year of Death 1967 Record Type Crematorium Age 67 Location Crematorium Source Karori Cemetery Office Surname FORBES Given Names Winnifred Elsie Year of Death 1968 Record Type Crematorium Age 73 Location Crematorium Yours, John Wilson ----- Original Message ----- From: "Helen Jennings" <kayj269@gmail.com> To: "NZ ROOTSWEB mail list" <NEW-ZEALAND@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2014 3:16 PM Subject: [nz] Winifred FORBES > Winifred Forbes born in 1885 going by the NZDBM & Died 1968 NZBDM. > Would anyone know where abouts she was born or died please . > Tried death Cd but not even listed > > I don't think she ever married > > I know we may have to get certs but any help beforehand would be wonderful > Thank you Helen > > > The List Guidelines > > http://new-zealand-l.blogspot.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NEW-ZEALAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

She is recorded in Wellington cremations dying 24/3/1968 aged 73. Born 23/1/1895.Maybe Wellington? Listed as Winnifred Elsie Forbes, born to Jane and George. Went to school at Clyde Quay, Wellington. Father was Captain Forbes. note spelling of Winnifred. Allan -----Original Message----- From: Helen Jennings Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2014 3:16 PM To: NZ ROOTSWEB mail list Subject: [nz] Winifred FORBES Winifred Forbes born in 1885 going by the NZDBM & Died 1968 NZBDM. Would anyone know where abouts she was born or died please . Tried death Cd but not even listed I don't think she ever married I know we may have to get certs but any help beforehand would be wonderful Thank you Helen The List Guidelines http://new-zealand-l.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NEW-ZEALAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2014.0.4355 / Virus Database: 3722/7306 - Release Date: 04/05/14

Winifred Forbes born in 1885 going by the NZDBM & Died 1968 NZBDM. Would anyone know where abouts she was born or died please . Tried death Cd but not even listed I don't think she ever married I know we may have to get certs but any help beforehand would be wonderful Thank you Helen

I am looking for photograph please rather than any written material. Joseph Francis MCMAHON/MACMAHON (Macmahon, lower case second m in some articles) was born Bendigo Victoria. Together with his three brothers they owned theatres in NZ and Australia and were also involved in early cinemas. Joseph died in Auckland in November 1918 and is buried at Waikaraka. There are many obituaries and articles in PapersPast and other publications, probate, burial records etc etc re Joseph however I am very keen to locate a photo of Joseph. I have looked at the Nat Lib Photograph collection without success. Is anyone able to locate a photo of Joseph for me please? With thanks Jenny

Hi Lori, All your questions can be answered by taking a look around the site https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/ Look under the "Data Collected" option in the menu down the left-hand side of the screen. For each type of event they tell you what information you will find on a printout versus what you'll find on a certificate. Always get the printout for family history purposes. Only get the certificate when you need it for legal purposes. The "Data Collected" area also tells you exactly what data should have been collected at the time. Some earlier events (eg marriages before about 1880) don't record enough information to be of practical use for us. Also look at the "Payments & Products" option on the web site, for a description of the various 'products' on offer here. You'll find more information under the other menu items, which will probably answer questions you haven't thought to ask yet. Take a little time to check it out properly. Hope this helps. :-) Wendy kiwi said the following on 6/04/2014 11:14 a.m.: > I hope I am on the right page. I am needing some help with ordering a birth cert and marriage certificate for around 1870's. I notice there are two that can be ordered. A printout copy and I cannot remember the other one. But I am needing the hand written copy. Which one would that be when I order it? Thank you. > > Lori Adkins

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/10719406/Former-dustmans-salvaged-WW1-archive.html?frame=2861436 Not NZ , but the pics on display, are both interesting and one of them showing the conditions of men in the trenches, could apply to NZ men, and is so appalling.It brings home, the huge sacrifices our men made.(sorry gals, but this comment applies to the trenches only) regards penne --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com