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Research
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The Tracing our History Newsletter: Issue 1
 
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February 2011 ISSUE 001
It
’
s Worth a Thought
I recently was doing somework on the family treeand again noticed justhow many children diedat an early age. In somefamilies there wereseveral children who diedbefore the age of one.How tragic was theexistence of our ancestorsat times in the past. Ihave really felt for someof those who have gonebefore.
Introduction
Welcome to the first issue of ‘Research,’ the Tracing our History newsletter.This newsletter replaces the long finished ‘Lilley/Matthews Mailout.’ The final
issue of the Mailout is still available on our website
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all previous issues havebeen removed due to out of date URLs and old HTML files.Research will be far superior to the previous newsletter in that it will not onlyfeature site news, but will in itself become a tool for aiding our collaborativeresearch in family history
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our family history.The first few issues will deal with various features of the website and howthey can aid the family researcher in our collaborative research efforts. Therewill therefore be articles dealing with diigo, pip.io, stixyboard, flickr and so on
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all features of the Tracing our History community and collaborative toolsnetwork.There will also be articles dealing with researching family history itself,information on our family tree and so on.
 
The Headlines
Introduction1Tracing our history1
What’s News!!!
 2Photos and Flickr 3Family Anthology4Family BMDs4
Kevin’s Portal
 5Web Site Addresses6Stop Press6
Tracing our History
Over the last few months I have been trying to consolidate the various familyhistory sites and tools that I have been using, and bringing them all together
under the ‘Tracing our History’ umbrella. This has now been accomplished
and enhanced by the addition of the tracingourhistory.com domain name.You will now be able to find the Blog, the site, our Facebook presence andother sites all under the tracing our History name.The name is intended to outline quite clearly the collaborative and interactivenature of the site and our community. In recent years I have had contact witha number of family members around the world, some previously known andmany others not previously known to me (other than a record on the familytree). With tracing out History the means now exist whereby all familymembers can take an active role in tracing our history together
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hence thesite name.With the above said, I would like to invite family members to become activelyinvolved in tracing our history together. Please bookmark the site and theBlog, like the Facebook page and join the other collaborative networks andtools on the site. Join in, research with us or even just be a moral supporter.
 
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ABOVE:
Being harassedby the nephews
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AndrewMatthews at back andLachlan Matthews
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Here I am busy atit at work
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Going back intime with the JohnLennon sunglasses
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Relaxing at RockyCrossing near Gloucesterin NSW, Australia after ahot day
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quite a fewyears ago now.I guess the biggest news with the website is already known by mostpeople. The site is moving to the domain tracingourhistory.com and themove needs to be completed by June 2011
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this is when the current sitewill go offline for good.The move to the new site is well under way and it is likely that there willbe very few pages on the site that look anything like the old
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apart fromthe content itself of course. It seemed like the ideal time to improve theappearance of the site and make a number of other changes also.Tracing our History now has a Facebook page which you can follow in your
Facebook news feed by simply ‘liking’ the page when you visit it. The
Facebook page will include updates concerning the site, including whennew newsletters are made available.Visit the Facebook Page at:http://www.facebook.com/pages/Tracing-our-History/194790270539929The family history book is now available on the new site in a passwordprotected section of the site. You will need to contact me in order to get apassword for this section of the site. It is password protected to provideprivacy and security to those within the tree.The family history book is till the old version and has not yet beenupdated. I know some people would like to see entries updated tocorrected information
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this is coming, but not before the end of 2011.There is a lot of work on the project and a much larger version of the bookis coming
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with corrections. Please be patient
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the wait will be worth it.The family tree itself is being updated also and will not be available on thesite until the end of 2011 also. It too will be secured behind passwordprotection. There is a lot of work going on behind the scenes as it were, inorder to get this work completed before the end of the year
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this is amassive project and will take time.Also under way is a major rebuild of the cemeteries section of the site. Iam not sure whether to continue using the data I have already collectedor to begin again from scratch. I would like this section of the site to be asuseful as possible for all family members around the world
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many of whom will not be able to visit the actual final resting places of those inother countries, etc.As always, if there is some way that you can assist in providing updatedinformation, photos, new information, etc
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please email me or contactme through Facebook. I will welcome your input gladly.Also, keep an eye on the Blog as I use both it and the Facebook page to
keep family members up to date with what’s happening at the site.
 
 What’s News!!!
 
 
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ABOVE:
Another shot atRocky Crossing
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Relatively recentphoto at my 40
th
BirthdayParty
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Another shotfrom my 40
th
 
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With my cousinSharon Lilley
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prior to my40
th
Birthday PartyOne of our most important tools/networks on Tracing out History is Flickr.Flickr is a photo sharing community/site owned by Yahoo. It is perhapsthe biggest photo sharing site on the Internet.Photos of the family and our family history I host on Flickr and thenembed the various albums into the photos page here at Tracing ourHistory. These are then able to be viewed by family members around theworld. Currently videos are also shared with family members via Flickr inthe same way, though I do use YouTube most of the time for videos.The reason I currently use Flickr (though there are no family videosavailable at this stage) for videos and not YouTube, is that Flickr has anability for Groups to be set up. I have therefore set up a group at Flickr
called, you guessed it, ‘Tracing our History.’
 If you have a Flickr account, please feel free to join the Tracing our Historygroup and add photos to the group that are of a family nature. By sharingphotos on Flickr you are contributing to our collaborative research andinteracting with other family members.The Tracing our History Flickr group can be found at:http://www.flickr.com/groups/tracingourhistory/There are no photos in the Group as I prepare this newsletter, but by thetime I publish it there may be some. There certainly will be some by thetime I finish embedding the photos on the new site.One of the other new features at tracingourhistory.com are the photosposted on most of the pages within the site. Where possible I have triedto include photos relevant to the particular page on which they are
posted. Of course this hasn’t always been possible, never
-the-less, I dothink they have enhanced the site considerably.
If you don’t have Internet access and would like to share photos you have
with other family members you can post them to me at the mailingaddress located at the end of the newsletter. I will then scan them intothe computer and add them to the site before returning them to you. Thiswill be of great help if you can assist in this way.Are there any other ideas that you may have as to how photos can beused for greater purpose within the site or otherwise? If you think of anyplease let me know and I will look into it.While on the subject of photos, I thought I might add a few photos of myself in this issue of the newsletter
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that way readers will know who Iam (a bit anyway).
 
Photos and Flickr
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