As the grandson of a Mulleach still researching my own family history I am fed up with all this bickering about who does what on mullgenealogy.co.uk. It has been going on for many years now. I have discussed it with some people who still live on the island and they are in broad agreement with my thinking. Ida King states loudly that she as list maintainer has complained to Rootsweb staff that the webmaster of mullfamilies.co.uk has been trying to "expel both my Isle of Mull mailing list duties and that of our website owner". What rubbish! The person she accuses has merely stepped into a vacuum to help people like me with our research enquiries. In this he has been knowledgeable, polite and helpful. By contrast the staff of MullGen has been very noticeable recently by their almost total silence and lack of response. Are they really carrying out their duties to the best of their ability? Sadly we have to face the fact that there is a very strong personality clash between the webmasters of the two Mull web sites. This clash is probably irreconcilable, but we, the researchers should not let it stand in the way of our Mull historical research which it is doing at present. The problem now is what we, the researchers, should do. As I see it the controllers of MullGen wish to prevent interference by anyone not within the direct control of themselves and Rootsweb. But because of their lack of activity can you blame us for accepting help from someone else who offers useful research? Have you noticed that current activity has dropped considerably since Ida's email? MullFamilies has now blossomed into a fine Mull history site with more varied material on it than MullGen, more up to date history and probably more accurate history as well. The problems are that it is run at present entirely by one enthusiastic individual and requires registration and login. These problems are not necessarily insurmountable. I for one am not prepared to sit on the sidelines and watch this bickering continue. Rootsweb is a worldwide organisation and would serve us all best by allowing those it sees as opposition to share fully in the work. If that was to happen there would be no need for two websites and everyone would benefit. Sadly I do not see much likelihood of this happening. If it does not I will almost certainly withdraw my name from the MullGen list and encourage others to do the same. Bob Murray St.Andrews Scotland -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Merle & Ida King Sent: 27 July 2011 23:51 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [SCT-ISLEOFMULL] Sharing detailsofbirth/marriage/deathcertificates FROM LIST MAINTAINER PLEASE READ Hi Margaret and Others I have been informed by Rootsweb.com our mailing list host of the following excerpt from Rootsweb staff: that someone did make some allegations about unfair treatment, we/they were not able to verify any of them with the voluminous information he provided. I had informed the Rootsweb staff . For years this person has been trying to expel both my Isle of Mull mailing list duties and that of our website owner. Some of his previous attempts were down right obstinate THANK GOD he did that off the list.. I, Ida the Isle of Mull list maintainer and Yes, Ian the website owner and operator of http://www.mullgenealogy.co.uk/ do believe that we need only one website to store and share our information. WE'D prefer it to be flawless but were all human. If it wasn't for our generous subscribers/contributors who spent numerous hours extracting census, birth, marriages and deaths and placing them on the Isle of Mull website. To be exposed to the world and thusly be ridiculed by some members is JUST PLAIN RUDE... Ian http://www.mullgenealogy.co.uk/ the website owner is more than willing to correct information that is being held on the website. Our goal has always been to help others Thus the formation of the Isle of Mull mailing list and website back in December 1998.. If you'd all take a few minutes to check your family information on the website and send your corrected information to him he'll more than be happy to correct it...Myself I'd prefer to have all information exchanged through the list for the Archives remember rootsweb only allows plain text. PLEASE if you have anything that needs another opinion we have numerous researchers who will share their expertise with you just ask through the list.. Margaret I'm sorry if I've used your posting here to vent my fustrations and that I've had to rehash these old problems. Yours was the most opportune reply for me these past few days. I'm sorry that you missed going to the Mull gathering as it was open to all Mull families Elaine did a marvelous job of organizing it from Canada. Regarding the Birth Marriage and Deaths certificates Ian will accept any and all information no matter how trivial it is. I also know that an ocassional thank you from someone you've shared information with goes a long ways. Again I'm sorry for having to rehash this. Ida