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From: "Gilly Taylor" <>
Subject: Re: Please READ and COMPREHEND this MESSSAGE!! Re: [ZA] 1820s ships and Ackermanns
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 20:44:23 +0100
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Hi Lynda

can see you are new to this List and promise there is so much kindness and
help out there - most of all when people ask simple questions and unfailing
care and concern for all. Early questions also remind all of our early
days.

I've been a member, on and off, for 4yrs, repeatedly seeking clues for one
person. Even when none can help, there have been suggestions of what to do
next and kind offers .... sympathy too when all fails!

It is a good idea to keep looking at the archives of any List .... I have
sometimes forgotten if searching a new line ... but, as above, even oldies
forget!

How much I appreciated, and still appreciate, all advice and potential leads
.... and, especially kind reminders for where else I may search.

.. Except on one List, where I got a DIY response - from one person ... and
help from lots of others.

Don't despair. As your search grows you will find people so kind as to look
up info which you didn't request, sometimes just because they are interested
and want to help. At first you will certainly find some "simple" routes to
basic research where people give you website contact points.

NB on my very first attempt to research Family History I didn't even find
Rootsweb, let alone other options. It was a year before I traced the link
and joined the Lists. I still regard myself as very naive when searching a
new line or joining a new List - especially since the one negative response
received on one particular List.

It is impossible to return help to all those who give you help for a
specific enquiry. Sometimes it is possible to help others elsewhere.

I have tried, as best I can, to search info in my own locality as a sort of
"payback" for help from distant shores and places. There may be a time for
you to be able to do that too in some way

Please don't feel negative. Sometimes it isn't easy to understand how
important early research and support can be in promoting future interest -
especially how it may encourage others to learn and pass on their own
knowledge.


Regards
Gilly

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lynda Price" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2004 11:23 AM
Subject: Re: Please READ and COMPREHEND this MESSSAGE!! Re: [ZA] 1820s ships
and Ackermanns


> Maureen
> I apologise for causing you such anger and annoyance. And I am sorry to be
> the recipient of your anger which I have to say is somewhat unreasonable.
> Unfortunately I have not been doing geneology for 5 years, I have just
> started and don't know who Conrad is or any of the other insider
references
> you have stated.
> I asked a civil question and your response is disappointing. If you don't
> like my question, you were not required to answer it.
> All of us have some specialist knowledge of some subjects Maureen, I am
100%
> confident I will know some things that you don't and would not dream of
> being so elitist and rude about my knowledge. Everyone else on this site,
> without exception, has been generous and kind, yours is the first arrogant
> and exclusionist response I have had.
> I am once again, sorry to have caused you such excessive and uncontrolled
> anger.
> Lynda Price
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Maureen Brady" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 10:14 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).
> >
> > And Hands Up all those who have actually visited Conrod's excellent
> website
> > on how to do genealogy in South Africa? You subscribe to his List, but
> have
> > you ever explored his website? HAVE YOU??
> > http://home.global.co.za/~mercon/. No? Shame on you!
> >
> > Aish! I rest my case...
> > Maureen Brady
> > Johannesburg
> > ************
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Lynda Price" <>
> > To: <>
> > Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 8:00 PM
> > Subject: [ZA] 1820s ships and Ackermanns
> >
> >
> > > Hi everyone
> > > I have two requests if anyone would be kind enough to send me any
> > infomation.
> > > Firstly, is there any available source of information about the ships
> that
> > went out to SA in the 1800s? What were they like, how long did they
take,
> > who owned them etc?
> > > Secondly, I have got suck on my research at Christina Elizabeth
> Ackermann
> > who married Gijsbertus Christiaan Immelman on 7th July 1821. She died
on
> > 12.1.1843 in Stellenbosch and I believe her father was Christiaan Joel
> > Ackermann. There are a few Christiaan Joel Ackermanns who may fit the
bill
> > and I'm not sure which it was. If anyone has any information on this
line,
> I
> > would be very graetful
> > > many thanks and best regards
> > > Lynda Price
> > >
> > >
> > > email:
> > >
> > >
> > > ==== SOUTH-AFRICA Mailing List ====
> > > ****************************************************
> > > This list is for the discussion of genealogy and any
> > > related subject, as it applies to South and Southern
> > > Africa. Please do participate.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > ==== SOUTH-AFRICA Mailing List ====
> > **********************************************************
> > To access the South African Genealogy List Archives go to:
> > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl
> > and then type in South-Africa and hit the submit button.
> > {Don't forget the hyphen (-) in South-Africa}
> >
> >
>
>
>
> ==== SOUTH-AFRICA Mailing List ====
> **********************************************************
> To access the South African Genealogy List Archives go to:
> http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl
> and then type in South-Africa and hit the submit button.
> {Don't forget the hyphen (-) in South-Africa}
>

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