Hi Margaret Welcome i always check in here to see if i can find any of my family but no such luck not yet any way this is agreat site. Kind regards jean (Australia) On Jan 1, 2008 4:14 AM, Grit <mwhitmore@snet.net> wrote: > Hello Everyone - > > Just wanted to take a minute to introduce myself & wish you all the best > that the New Year has to offer. > > My name is Margaret Whitmore & I live in Connecticut in the US. (aka > Grit) For those of you who follow Raymond Kelly's County Down Web Site, you > will know that last year Raymond was looking for a little assistance and he > very kindly allowed me to become involved in helping with the site. To > date, I have not been very involved in changing or adding to the site, but > now I am preparing to do so. > > Raymond & I are thinking of adding a section to the site for submissions > from others of their "proven" family connections with origins from County > Down. The reason for using only "proven" information is to avoid putting > incorrect information in a place where others might assume it is correct > (like they do on the rootweb & ancestry family tree sites) There is much > misinformation available, and, if all you want is something to put into your > tree without worrying about accuracy, that's great. But there are many of > us who much prefer to use only the information we can verify. > > Now, I can start with my family which my cousin & I have traced back to > Ballyculter. But, if you're interested in sharing with others and maybe > getting more information from our readers, we'd appreciate your input. > > For now, submissions need to be forwarded in the form of a gedcom file. > If your information is in familytreemaker or a pedigree resource file, it > is a gedcom. You can forward family trees to me at > grit@raymondscountydownwebsite.com together with a simple statement of how > you connected your family to County Down and what documentation you used. > If you wish to submit information, but don't have your family in a gedcom > file, drop me a note and we'll see what we can work out. > > It may take a little while to get this section up and running, but bear > with me over the holidays and I'll keep you up to date on the progress. > > Here's hoping you will all join me in helping to keep Raymond's site > right up there in the top of those trying to make genealogy information free > for all to utilize. He's done a great job in keeping up for many years and > it'd be great to keep things going that way. > > BTW - Please join me in wishing Raymond & the Lady Cathie a happy 53rd > wedding anniversary! > > GRIT > > Comments and criticisms always welcome at > grit@raymondscountydownwebsite.com > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NIR-DOWN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- Kind regards Jean