On Thursday, 13 November 2014, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: ADMINISTRATION (Nancy Keith) > 2. Wartime Munitions Factories (Martin Briscoe) > 3. Re: ADMINISTRATION (Nancy Magnusson) > 4. Re: ADMINISTRATION (JANICE WOOD) > 5. Re: ADMINISTRATION ([email protected]) > 6. Re: ADMINISTRATION ([email protected]) > 7. (no subject) (Sheila Coy) > 8. Re: ADMINISTRATION (Sue Taylor) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 09:45:59 -0500 > From: Nancy Keith <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [YORKSGEN] ADMINISTRATION > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > > Welcome, Lin. I hope your tenure as Administrator will be fruitful, a > joy, and - of course - interesting. You know us well by now, and know > that we can be a contentious group - but always very helpful. > > Here's to a long and happy relationship. > > Nancy > from snowy Michigan, U S of A > > > On 11/13/2014 9:24 AM, Lin via wrote: >> Dear fellow listers. >> >> Following Dave's resignation as List Administrator I have taken over the >> role. >> >> I thought it opportune to tell you a little about myself. >> >> I have lived in Yorkshire all my life and have been researching my >> family for nearly 40 years. >> >> I have been a member of Yorksgen for many years and no doubt some of you >> will be familiar with my name. >> >> I have found the list on the whole helpful, informative and have made >> many friends through it. >> >> >> Lin Duke >> List Administrator >> > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 14:51:05 -0000 > From: "Martin Briscoe" <[email protected]> > Subject: [YORKSGEN] Wartime Munitions Factories > To: <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > I think there have been occasional messages on various lists about wartime > munitions factories of various sorts because of family members working in > them. English Heritage have made this excellent book available for free > download. It has a lot of information on the various types of manufacturing > and a comprehensive gazetteer at the back of the book. > > > > Cocroft, W. (2000) > > Dangerous Energy: The archaeology of gunpowder and military explosives > manufacture. English Heritage. > > http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/eh_monographs_2014/content > s.cfm?mono=1089008 > > http://goo.gl/iJ20r9 > > > > For anyone interested in history they have also made many other publications > available. > > > > http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/eh_monographs_2014/ > > http://goo.gl/lrzkLf > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Martin Briscoe > > Fort William > > [email protected] > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 07:11:29 -0800 > From: Nancy Magnusson <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [YORKSGEN] ADMINISTRATION > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > < [email protected]om> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Well Lin. I also hope your tenure here will be interesting, exciting and > fun. > > Nancy from British Columbia, Canada > > On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 6:45 AM, Nancy Keith via <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> >> Welcome, Lin. I hope your tenure as Administrator will be fruitful, a >> joy, and - of course - interesting. You know us well by now, and know >> that we can be a contentious group - but always very helpful. >> >> Here's to a long and happy relationship. >> >> Nancy >> from snowy Michigan, U S of A >> >> >> On 11/13/2014 9:24 AM, Lin via wrote: >> > Dear fellow listers. >> > >> > Following Dave's resignation as List Administrator I have taken over the >> > role. >> > >> > I thought it opportune to tell you a little about myself. >> > >> > I have lived in Yorkshire all my life and have been researching my >> > family for nearly 40 years. >> > >> > I have been a member of Yorksgen for many years and no doubt some of you >> > will be familiar with my name. >> > >> > I have found the list on the whole helpful, informative and have made >> > many friends through it. >> > >> > >> > Lin Duke >> > List Administrator >> > >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 15:33:52 +0000 > From: JANICE WOOD <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [YORKSGEN] ADMINISTRATION > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > Hello Lin,? > > I would like to add a very warm welcome. I hope that your administration of Yorksgen will be as happy and trouble-free as mine was. I was sorry to see the recent controversy, but I hope the list has now settled down to its usual harmonious state and that we can all continue to enjoy Yorksgen and gain knowledge and inspiration from our fellow listers. > > Best wishes > Janice Wood > (Former Yorksgen Admin 2003-2014) > > > ________________________________ > From: Lin via <[email protected]> > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, 13 November 2014, 14:24 > Subject: [YORKSGEN] ADMINISTRATION > > > Dear fellow listers. > > Following Dave's resignation as List Administrator I have taken over the > role. > > I thought it opportune to tell you a little about myself. > > I have lived in Yorkshire all my life and have been researching my > family for nearly 40 years. > > I have been a member of Yorksgen for many years and no doubt some of you > will be familiar with my name. > > I have found the list on the whole helpful, informative and have made > many friends through it. > > > Lin Duke > List Administrator > > -- > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 15:44:33 +0000 > From: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [YORKSGEN] ADMINISTRATION > To: <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > > > Hi Lin > > Welcome to your role as administrator of the list. Although > I don't regularly post I do read the posts with great interest and am > always impressed by how knowledgeable fellow listers are, and also how > generous they are with that knowledge and time. > > Looking forward to a > long and happy administration of the list > > best rgds > > Sue > > On > 13-11-2014 14:24, Lin via wrote: > >> Dear fellow listers. >> >> Following > Dave's resignation as List Administrator I have taken over the >> > role. >> >> I thought it opportune to tell you a little about myself. >> > >> I have lived in Yorkshire all my life and have been researching my >> > family for nearly 40 years. >> >> I have been a member of Yorksgen for > many years and no doubt some of you >> will be familiar with my name. >> > >> I have found the list on the whole helpful, informative and have made > >> many friends through it. >> >> Lin Duke >> List Administrator > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 16:56:04 -0000 > From: <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [YORKSGEN] ADMINISTRATION > To: "Lin" <[email protected]>, <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original > > Welcome Lin, I hope that you'll be with us for a long time! > > Sue > Notts (but only by default) > -----Original Message----- > From: Lin via > Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2014 2:24 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [YORKSGEN] ADMINISTRATION > > Dear fellow listers. > > Following Dave's resignation as List Administrator I have taken over the > role. > > I thought it opportune to tell you a little about myself. > > I have lived in Yorkshire all my life and have been researching my > family for nearly 40 years. > > I have been a member of Yorksgen for many years and no doubt some of you > will be familiar with my name. > > I have found the list on the whole helpful, informative and have made > many friends through it. > > > Lin Duke > List Administrator > > -- > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 7 > Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 17:25:53 -0000 > From: "Sheila Coy" <[email protected]> > Subject: [YORKSGEN] (no subject) > To: "Message to All Yorksgen" <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > It is a shame things have been a little awry lately but, isn't it the > Yorkshire nature? > > > > We need some of Roy's quotes about Yorkshire folk. > > > > 'Tha' can 'allus tell a Yorkshire man, but 'tha' can't tell em much comes to > mind. > > > > I am not actively pursuing my family history at the moment, but would never > unsubscribe from Yorksgen as such a lot of useful and interesting > information comes up, many people have been subscribing for many years and > we have some real experts offering very valuable information. > > > > There have been many spats over the years, but all resolved peacefully I > think. > > > > Regards > > > > Sheila Coy > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 8 > Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 19:14:47 +0000 > From: Sue Taylor <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [YORKSGEN] ADMINISTRATION > To: Lin <[email protected]>, [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed > > Hi Lin, > Welcoming you as Yorksgen List Admin. > Sue > > On 13/11/2014 14:24, Lin via wrote: >> Dear fellow listers. >> >> Following Dave's resignation as List Administrator I have taken over the >> role. >> >> I thought it opportune to tell you a little about myself. >> >> I have lived in Yorkshire all my life and have been researching my >> family for nearly 40 years. >> >> I have been a member of Yorksgen for many years and no doubt some of you >> will be familiar with my name. >> >> I have found the list on the whole helpful, informative and have made >> many friends through it. >> >> >> Lin Duke >> List Administrator >> > > > > --- > This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! 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