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September 2007 NEWSLETTER
(circulated to members of the Adamthwaite mailing list on Rootsweb)
Adamthwaite Archive – new site
Last
month I transferred all the pages from the old Adamthwaite Archive website
to a new url at
www.adamthwaitearchive.org.uk as the original website, which I had
tacked on to the end of my own family history website, had expanded so much
that I was in danger of running out of space. It now looks as if Google and
other search engines have trawled the new site sufficiently for it to show
up on most relevant searches, so I will shortly be deleting the archive
pages from the old site (which was at
www.mastel.org.uk/adamthwaitearchive). Please can you add the new url
to your bookmarks and remove any bookmarks to the old site.
Colour coding system
In
response to several queries about the colour coding system used throughout
the Birth, Marriage and Death pages and also on the Census spreadsheets, I
have added what I hope is a helpful explanation about how the system was
devised and a short description about each of the lines. There is a link to
this explanation from the main BMD and Census pages of the new site. Does
it make sense? Please let me know if you feel there should be more on this
subject.
Miscellany section
Now
there is plenty of space to add any new items – please send me any extra
articles about your line of Adamthwaites that you would like included. The
Miscellany section has grown a lot in recent months and now contains several
interesting articles about particular families, which really bring them to
life.
Last month I added ‘Rhoda’s
Story’, written by Toni about her mother’s family in Leeds with some
super photos of members of the VIOLET line; the fascinating story about the
Quambatook Adamthwaites of Victoria Australia, written nearly 40
years ago by Vida Adamthwaite, and brought up to date by Elizabeth in NZ;
also details of
Adamthwaites in Uniform listing all the records we have found for
military service in the World Wars and earlier – can you add photos or more
details of any of your relatives that served in the forces but have not yet
been included on these pages?
This
month Bob has written a very interesting article about
Adamthwaites in the Workhouse, which you will also find in the
Miscellany Section.
And
I am still working on an article about the ORANGE line of Adamthwaites –
which is growing longer by the day. If you can add any information about
this line I would be most grateful, I am particularly short of photographs
for members of this family.
Photo Galleries
After much searching, I have found a better system to display the growing
number of photos we are collecting. This new system has allowed me to use
slightly better quality images, which you can download (just right click on
any image and select ‘save’). Take a look at the Photo Gallery and let me
know what you think. Does it still take too long to load some pages?
You
may notice that we have no photos at all for the TURQUOISE and BLUE lines
and only a few for some of the other lines – if you have got any pictures of
your ancestors hidden away in shoeboxes, please email scanned copies to me
so that they can be included. If you don’t have access to a scanner, just
email me for my postal address and I will scan and return any originals
immediately.
Useful links
Elizabeth in NZ has been beavering away hunting for Adamthwaites in all the
newly digitised books and publications that you can access on Google Books …
more are being added daily, and though it is still a bit hit and miss
whether or not the text recognition software actually finds every mention of
a particular surname, she has found some brilliant bits of information. We
will be adding more to the website section of Adamthwaites in the Press very
soon as a result of Elizabeth’s work. You may like to have a look yourself
at this valuable search tool – you can find it at
http://books.google.com/
I am
sending this newsletter to all members of the Adamthwaite mailing list on
Rootsweb and also to all other email contacts I have for Adamthwaite
researchers, because I want to be sure that everyone who might want to
access the Adamthwaite Archive website knows about the move to the new web
address. Please could you forward this newsletter to anyone you know who I
may not be in contact with?
Sue
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