One of the daughter groups of this list is administered by Mike Jon
the well known genealogist of temperament :-)
he has been busy deleting parts of
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~monfamilies/
for the second time
After many emails and phone calls from Canada and Denmark
Mike was persused to reinstate
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/monfh/
including an archive of 10 000 emails
and appointed me an assistant moderator
but now I have been unsubscribed.
so if you wish to preserve some of your past postings you better download
what you need really quickly :-)
Whilst
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/monfh/ was off line
I started a daughter group in response to an email from another lister
One of the disadvantages of YAHOO versus ROOTSWEB is that one man
controls the archives
On Rootsweb boards it is not possible for an admin to clear a board or
an archive
at worst "deleted" messages on a board are hidden in a recycle bin and
usually moved to a better board.
Hugh W
============== bounced message from
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/monfh/
I see absolutely no need to compete with the very capable Mike
John there on yahoo and Ann Macey on Rootsweb so as soon as we got Mikes group
back on the rails monfh2 was renamed WELSH FAMILIES
Therefore monfh2 is today a new broader group covering
South Wales and Gloucestershire north of the the river Severn
> Description
For genealogy and help with family history in South Wales, and even
Gloucestershire, from Pembrokeshire and with the tide all along the
Severn Channel, and up the Severn estuary and River Severn as far as
the Severn Bore rolls.
Brecon, Cardigan, Carmarthen, Glamorgan, Pembroke and Radnor with the
Forest of Dean side of Gloucestershire
SEE
South Wales: Kellys 1920
http://www.cefnpennar.com/Kellys1920_intro.htm
<<
The mining community of the Forest of Dean certainly has strong links
with Wales and I for example find Gloucestershire lasses married to
Monmouthshire
lads in Raglan
There is a historical hierarchy of usenet genealogy groups
news:alt.genealogy
soc. (society)
Social issues, culture...
and the news:soc.genealogy.* groups
http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?lnk=gh&sel=33589646
most of which have rootsweb lists created in the days when users had
email but could not all get at nntp newsgroups
Since then google rescued the DejaNews archives which were offline for a year
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DejaNews
>Google now offers a way to post messages on Usenet through Google
Groups. This eagerly-anticipated improvement follows the recent
addition of the full Usenet archive formerly maintained by
Deja.com.
Together, these upgrades provide you with complete access to Usenet
data since 1995 and the ability to add your own comments to the more
than 650 million messages already posted. We hope you will find this
improved Usenet service of value. Google is committed to making Google
Groups the best source of Usenet postings on the web and to that end,
we will continue working to add the services and functions our users
request.
http://groups.google.com/googlegroups/deja_announcement.html
next came the specialist boards and lists
for topics localities and surnames
http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/WLS/
Boards > Localities > United Kingdom and Ireland > Wales >
Monmouthshire > General
http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/board/an/localities.britisles.wales.mon...
Fifty yars ago Welsh genealogy had two main threads, the older
published genealogies were patriotic and historical, or of the mostly
english ruling or landowning classes.
Today the Family History Societies organised by county are the key to
the transcriptions and indexing.
On the net
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/
is a good entry point
> Many sets of official records were kept for England and Wales
together, so that the problems of locating them and using them are
very similar in the two countries. For convenience such records are
described under England, rather than here or on the British Isles
pages. <<
and
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/MON/
my own viewpoint
http://users.rootsweb.com/~wlsmer/FAQ/index.html
"For almost 500 years, Welsh government business has been conducted in London."
anyway
yahoo.com is the new boy on the block
see also
http://www.walesgenweb.com/
Barb Lavin
WalesGenWeb Coordinator
new
http://n.webring.com/hub?ring=accwls
http://www.walesgenweb.com/counties.html
http://www.rootsweb.com/~wlsmon/
good hunting
Hugh W
--
Welsh Families HOMEPAGE
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hugh/monfh2/index.html
and a very helpful list and message board
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/monfh2/