Correct Jim. I am looking for William Owen, and no other person except that
surname.
It's hard to find other Researchers in Rad whom are looking for the same
family. It'll be even harder with no one on the Rad list at all.
Y Ddraig Goch ddyry gychwyn
Don
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From: "Jim Duggan " <jduggan(a)nc.rr.com>
To: <WLS-RADNORSHIRE-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 7:17 AM
Subject: [WLS-RAD] RE: WLS-RADNORSHIRE-D Digest V06 #7
I can't pretend to understand what it takes for a list to
"survive", but it
strikes me that the roll up into larger lists is optimizing for activity
rather than value. Part of the difficulty in researching an area like
Radnor is matching up with other researchers on the same topic. I suspect
that will be more difficult in a larger "more noisy" list. On the other
hand I suspect you're right about the target population needing to be at
some critical level for a list to have significant activity.
Since I have already sounded a contrarian note let me also say I think a
small population area can support an active list if other research
resources
are very rich. You can see this at work in some on the US county sites.
Good research material will drive a lot of community activity in both list
and site content contributions. See
http://www.rootsweb.com/~srgp/jmtindex.htm for one of the richest
examples
of a site serving a group of rural counties.
Jim Duggan - Seeking Duggan's from the Marches. (Herefordshire,
Radnorshire and surrounding)
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