Re: Directory to 6,017,770 Genealogical Resources

On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 23:11:22 +0100, Hugh Watkins
<hugh.watkins@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in soc.genealogy.computing:

>Denis Beauregard wrote:
>> On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 01:13:18 +0100, Hugh Watkins
>> <hugh.watkins@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in soc.genealogy.computing:
>> 
>> 
>>>I think he send fake cancel notices fo posts like this
>> 
>> 
>> Actually, he is the moderator of soc.genealogy.methods
>
>yes I see he routes stuff through his own server
>polite moderators always say why they block posts
>
>O know he was a pioneer at Rootsweb but since it was sold he appeared to 
>be at a loose end

I met his wife Karen and some of the stuff about 2 or 3 days before
Rootsweb was sold.  I think it was in Providence (first time I was
in an NGS meeting).  Quite interesting event.  I remember I was 
walking and then I saw Sylvie Tremblay (a well-known genealogist
of Quebec city, now with the Canadian genealogy center) who told me
Cyndi wanted to see me.  I was very surprised, but anyway, in the
early years, everybody knew everybody else ! 

And if you check the early soc.roots postings for example, or the
people involved in the group that created the new soc.genealogy.*
hierarchy, you will find a lot of people that were also involved
in the Rootsweb community.  I was myself the first list owner of a
mailing list (gen-ff) linked to a newsgroup (fr.rec.genealogie) for
the new generation of mailing lists (at that time, the link between
roots-l and soc.roots was stopped because there were too many
debates about splitting soc.roots).


Denis

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