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From: "dpratt" <>
Subject: Re: [ZA] Please READ and COMPREHEND this MESSSAGE!!
Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2004 14:06:23 +0200
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I would love to send an "amen!" or "Hear, hear" email in reply to this one
but I'm too scared to in case I'm breaking some "internet etiquette"
Derek Pratt

----- Original Message -----
From: "Marilyn Hyam" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2004 11:53 AM
Subject: [ZA] Please READ and COMPREHEND this MESSSAGE!!


> I was most disappointed to read Maureen's comments and felt that new
> people to the list could be intimidated in asking any questions in case
> the questions had been asked before.
>
> Having just joined the list this year, I would like to thank all the
> people who have willingly helped me in my research so far. I took
> Maureen's advice today BUT when I got to the site, she stated there were
> EIGHT years to search from. I could only search one year at a time for
> each of my queries (is there a better/easier way of searching this other
> than browsing?) If I had time Maureen, I would follow your advice but I
> do not have hours of free time to peruse this site in the hope of
> finding the answer to my queries.
>
> I know that there might be someone on the list who willingly would be
> able to help me in my journey of finding my roots, as others have helped
> them along the way. Although new to the list, I have also been able to
> help others in their research and this has given me great joy and has
> been very rewarding.
>
> I am probably expressing the thoughts of many newcomers. I hope that our
> questions to the list may continue without feeling intimidated and
> fearful that we have done the wrong thing by asking the question.
> Researching in a country that you do not live in, is not the easiest way
> to do it. If you had been researching for family in Australia Maureen,
> I'm sure you would be asking the same questions that we would find easy
> to answer as we have the resources here in our FHS centres. In my FHS
> centre we have no fysche readily available for South Africa at all to
> look at whereas in your centres you probably have heaps. We certainly do
> have all the fysche here in Australia for Australian research, which is
> freely available.
>
> Now I have had my say and feel better that I didn't just delete the
> posting!
>
> Once again, a very BIG thank you to all the wonderful people on the list
> who are assisting me in finding the elusive Hyams and I'm most grateful
> to everyone who has shared/exchange research with me regarding GARBUTT,
> ADENDORFF, EDMONSTONE and TATHAM.
>
> Kinds regards and take care
> Marilyn from Glenhaven in Australia
>
> RESEARCHING:
> *
> ADENDORFF - Cornelius Klarus Adendorff married to Anna Maria
> Isabella Martens
> *
> DUNK from England to South Africa
> *
> GARBUTT from Ampleforth, Yorkshire to South Africa
> *
> GODER/MARCHAND from Mauritius to South Africa
> *
> HYAM from Middlesex/London to South Africa
> *
> EDMONSTONE
> *
> TATHAM
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eileen & Marty Russell [mailto:]
> Sent: Saturday, 3 April 2004 5:14 PM
> To:
> Subject: Re: Please READ and COMPREHEND this MESSSAGE!! Re: [ZA] 1820s
> ships and Ackermanns
>
> Temper, temper, Maureen. I'm very lucky, my machine's got a DELETE
> button.
>
> Yes, the same topics to do come up regularly - but that means that more
> and more people are becoming interested. And yes, the same
> surnames do come up - I have been working on my BOT(H)MAs since the
> early 1980s and just last week someone had something new for me.
> And there are all the happy messages between people who find links
> across the centuries and across the continents.
>
> I am sure if I suddenly came across a lead in say Australia or Canada
> I'd jump in and ask all sorts of naïve questions that
> 'everyone' on the relevant Lists knows, but hopefully some kind soul
> would point me in the right direction.
>
> Rather use your considerable skills and do us a nice article on 'How to
> Get What You Want Out of the List Archive Without Running
> Up a Huge Phone Bill'. I get very frustrated trying to find messages I
> know are hiding in there.
>
> Have a happy weekend
> Eileen
> Richards Bay
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Maureen Brady <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 11:14 PM
> Subject: Please READ and COMPREHEND this MESSSAGE!! Re: [ZA] 1820s ships
> and Ackermanns
>
>
> > Do any of you ever take notice of -- that is, READ -- the messages
> that
> > recommend: EXPLORE THE LIST ARCHIVES?
> >
> > The address is in the automatic message each of us gets EVERY SINGLE
> TIME WE
> > SUBSCRIBE TO THIS LIST!!! How many times must we discuss the same old
> > topics? -- ships' lists, the 1918 flu epidemic, Adam Tas's Diary,
> individual
> > surnames -- unless we can contribute something new.
> >
> > I have a request to the List owner -- Conrod, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE
> put the
> > address for the List Archives in the automatic tag that gets appended
> to all
> > our messages. Why do we bother to have a List Archive if no-one ever
> seems
> > to consult it??????
> >
> > Lynda, this is not aimed at you personally, but after being on & off
> this
> > List for five years, it's getting a bit frustrating to keep dealing
> with the
> > same old issues.
> >
> > The URL for the List Archive is:
> >
> > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl
> >
> > Once you reach this page, type in South-Africa and click the submit
> query
> > button. (Don't forget to include the hyphen between South and Africa).
>
>
>
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