Another point Cara et al - messages sent to wexford@rootsweb.com <wexford@rootsweb.com> remain archived on http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/WEXFORD/2011-01 so you can find messages there from as far back as 1980. I don't know Facebook well enough to know if there are archived messages from earlier times available to researchers years later. Eileen ----- Original Message ----- From: Cara_Links To: wexford@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 7:41 PM Subject: [WEXFORD] WEXFORD FORUM AND INPUT Dear Kevin, Whilst all these ideas you put forward are part of the going forward with the times, it is indeed taking from the the Wexford list what it was intended for, to be used by the listers, but a series of things have occurred on this list, 1- Being the list that was compiled by the list owner and appears on the bottom of all mails to the list whilst a modern innovation and good idea there is never any input to suggest that newbies look at this list, but once clicked on it does defeat the purpose of what the lists were originally intended for and that was to encourage the exchange and input to the list, which of course has died over the last few months it just simply needs a burial to finish it off. Also this is a ROOTSWEB based forum it is not here to promote other ways and means of utilising our own ends by creating other forums on other sites, is this not spreading the resources to the absolute limit. So instead of looking for more, places to post more things why not simply introduce to this list a worthy subject, for discussion on the list, and thereby re-creating interest in the list Yes some of us have been researching forever and a day, and find these lists of some use, and yes we are competing with a new area of research with mobiles, twitter and face book to name a few, but being faithful to the Rootsweb Wexford list is not too much to ask I dont think at all, as loyalty is needed to get these lists up and going again I dont feel it is the obligation to have a young member build us a social network on any of the modern forums but for us to support and re-build what is available here These are my thoughts and as anyone would know me, my loyalties remain with Rootsweb,they were the first to give researchers their free site, and now they appear to be the ones that will be tossed aside first ( not a good idea I think) My ten cents worth Cara I use BullGuard Spamfilter to keep my inbox clean. It is completely free: www.bullguard.com/freespamfilter Wexford Surnames List http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hughw/wexford.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to WEXFORD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Oh dear, I must have expressed myself badly and do apologise. I would not for a moment suggest that people be encouraged to post to other sites, as Cara so rightly says that would be a very unhelpful development. Instead, I was wondering how total newcomers (nowadays) find our activities on Rootsweb, and whether there is a simple way in which we can reach out to them and draw them in. The idea of a page on Facebook is not to accept postings or anything that should be on Rootsweb, it is merely a (free) way to reach people who have expressed an interest in (say) Wexford and to direct those who are interested in family history towards our Rootsweb area. For example, if you search "Wexford" on Facebook just now, you reach one private person, a Wikipedia article and a link to Wexford USA. If instead you enter "Colonsay" (where I live) you will come across pages for our local brewery, the local estate owner and one which covers community interest (including BMD etc.) called Friends of Colonsay (also other pages). None of these pages competes with its own website - instead, it is used to capture interested persons and direct them to the site in question. There is also a degree of cross-fertilization; it makes it very easy for interested people to pass on the details to their friends; and it permits the page-owner to send a message from time to time, perhaps to flag up something of special interest. This note is just to clarity my suggestion and indeed to support Cara and Eileen - it is crucial to keep all postings directed to and archived upon Rootsweb; on the other hand, things have changed a lot over the last 15 years or so and I rather suspect that younger people expect things to be very easy. I wonder if most of them do not just try a quick search online and give up if they cannot find something on the first screenshot of results? Those young people have got older relatives who might have a lot to contribute... it was just a thought! Best wishes ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eileen O'Leary" <geneeol@optusnet.com.au> To: "Cara_Links" <cara_links@bigpond.com>; <wexford@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 11:18 AM Subject: Re: [WEXFORD] WEXFORD FORUM AND INPUT Another point Cara et al - messages sent to wexford@rootsweb.com <wexford@rootsweb.com> remain archived on http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/WEXFORD/2011-01 so you can find messages there from as far back as 1980. I don't know Facebook well enough to know if there are archived messages from earlier times available to researchers years later. Eileen ----- Original Message ----- From: Cara_Links To: wexford@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 7:41 PM Subject: [WEXFORD] WEXFORD FORUM AND INPUT Dear Kevin, Whilst all these ideas you put forward are part of the going forward with the times, it is indeed taking from the the Wexford list what it was intended for, to be used by the listers, but a series of things have occurred on this list, 1- Being the list that was compiled by the list owner and appears on the bottom of all mails to the list whilst a modern innovation and good idea there is never any input to suggest that newbies look at this list, but once clicked on it does defeat the purpose of what the lists were originally intended for and that was to encourage the exchange and input to the list, which of course has died over the last few months it just simply needs a burial to finish it off. Also this is a ROOTSWEB based forum it is not here to promote other ways and means of utilising our own ends by creating other forums on other sites, is this not spreading the resources to the absolute limit. So instead of looking for more, places to post more things why not simply introduce to this list a worthy subject, for discussion on the list, and thereby re-creating interest in the list Yes some of us have been researching forever and a day, and find these lists of some use, and yes we are competing with a new area of research with mobiles, twitter and face book to name a few, but being faithful to the Rootsweb Wexford list is not too much to ask I dont think at all, as loyalty is needed to get these lists up and going again I dont feel it is the obligation to have a young member build us a social network on any of the modern forums but for us to support and re-build what is available here These are my thoughts and as anyone would know me, my loyalties remain with Rootsweb,they were the first to give researchers their free site, and now they appear to be the ones that will be tossed aside first ( not a good idea I think) My ten cents worth Cara I use BullGuard Spamfilter to keep my inbox clean. It is completely free: www.bullguard.com/freespamfilter Wexford Surnames List http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hughw/wexford.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to WEXFORD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message