Good for you!! I agree wholeheartedly with your sentiments. Thanks for starting this website. Suzanne -----Original Message----- From: norcal-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:norcal-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Janet Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 2:59 PM To: norcal@rootsweb.com Subject: [NORCAL] Family Notices website Saw this on another list, looks interesting! From: Duty Administrator <fenstanton@gmail.com> Subject: [ENG-HANTS] A new website - www.familynotices.org To: eng-hampshire-l@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <8e1b70471003110334o3b91b197gef8b38f7b4a601ca@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 I have just unleashed www.familynotices.org onto the unsuspecting Public. Following the death of a close family member, I was infuriated and worse, at the outrageous charges the local newspaper made for posting just a small obituary. It made me think through the whole 'death notices' thing and I pondered how some persons are at their lowest ebb when trying to attend to the small details. I felt that possibly many were either disturbed at the whole horrible process and therefore would say "Yes" to anything just to be able to end the telephone conversation, or they were suffering the modern-day piety/mawkishness and want to spend as much as possible 'to show how much they cared...' - regardless the 'local rags' love it! So I created FamilyNotices.org - which is an on-line repository for all notices of Births, Deaths, Marriages, Engagements, Anniversaries and Missing Persons. This has the advantage of being world-wide, unlike the 'local rag' and better still - is free. Genealogists won't find it very useful for some time, until some numbers of posting have been made, but it has to start somewhere. I suspect there may be teething problems, but..... Please feel free to help yourself and post anything which is relevant and appropriate - and it doesn't have to be current. Details of 'Auntie Millie born in 1896' is just as relevant as a modern-day wedding notice. If you like it, please tell your friends .........& if you don't just tell me! Nigel - Listowner ----------------------------------------- NORCAL ARCHIVES: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/ Enter NORCAL. Browse by month. Or click the "Search all archives" link to search by keyword. ----------------------------------------- To post a message to the NORCAL mailing list, send an email to NORCAL@rootsweb.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NORCAL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message