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From: John Palmer <>
Subject: [OPS] OPS list, Websites v Books
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 10:58:37 +0100
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Hello Rob ()
and other listers,

I run a One-Place-Study for Wirksworth in Derbyshire, for which
there is a website at http://www.wirksworth.org.uk. I also keep a list of
OPS "on the back of" my website at
http://www.wirksworth.org.uk/a43-OPS.htm, and there are now 100 OPS listed.
Your Winchcombe is mentioned in the list, but not your Sudeley study. Would
you like Sudeley added to the list?
For those without websites, I'd like to plug their advantages
over books. Websites can hold FAR more text, are free to the reader, can be
read worldwide and instantly, can have new data added or errors removed
anytime, can publish reader's comments, can have 50,000 readers per year,
can be put on CD and posted cheaply, can display pages 300+ characters wide
or 1,000 lines long, can have 1,000 pages, can have rainbow colours, can
show a myriad of fonts and layout effects, can be maintained from anywhere
with a phone line, don't need a publisher, can be hyperlinked. I think this
hyperlinking is their best feature. Each entry in an index 100,000 names
long can be instantly connected to any other part of the website, making
big indexes a pleasure to use. In the same way, any word in the website can
be connected to any other website on the Internet (there are over a billion
of them). Although websites will never replace books, these advantages plus
a bit of ingenuity are tickets to a magic new world in publishing.

Best wishes,

John Palmer, Dorset, England

At 15:45 27/07/2001 +0100, you wrote:
>Dear David
>
>I am a one place researcher and have been on the Colin Mills list (while he
>has been looking for a "publisher") for the last couple of years.
>
>My place of interest is the town and parish of Winchcombe, Gloucestershire,
>I have been involved in family and local history research there for over 20
>years, and I have had several articles published about various aspects of
>historical Winchcombe.
>
>In addition I should mention that I am also interested in the adjacent
>parish of Sudeley. The centre of the two parishes are about one mile distant
>and their histories are closely entwined.
>
>So, although Winchcombe is my first (historical) love, I would not be upset
>to be described (in your book on One Place Genealogy - or elsewhere) as a
>student of the history of Winchcombe & Sudeley, Glos.
>
>My address is 14 Beech Avenue, Worcester WR3 8PZ, and I would welcome
>correspondence from those with similar interests.
>
>Your enterprise has my full support, because it will help to put like-minded
>people in touch with one another at no cost. My experience of this since I
>went on line two years ago has been far better than I ever imagined.
>Best wishes
>
>ROB WHITE
>01905-458681 (home)
>E Mail address:
>No web site as yet.
>
>
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