User talk:AndrewRT

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Place:48 Vanburgh Hill, Greenwich, Kent, England [13 August 2009]

Hi, volunteer admin here. I patrol the place pages. I am sorry but we cannot have place pages for homes and roads. I had to delete those pages. Hope you understand.  :) --sq 21:35, 12 August 2009 (EDT)

ok i understand. AndrewRT 04:29, 13 August 2009 (EDT)

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Image Licensing [8 April 2010]

Hello, I am a volunteer admin and it's my job to help people learn the system. You asked for help licensing your images. I can't license your images but I can give your guidance. There are numerous licensing options, but most images fall into one of these categories:

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Hope this helps. Please be aware that images left in the "Help needed" category for longer than two weeks will be deleted. If you have any more question please leave me a message. :)--sq 20:31, 8 April 2010 (EDT)

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US Turveys.ged Imported Successfully [19 December 2010]

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Essex Turveys.ged Imported Successfully [19 December 2010]

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Next step: Review your GEDCOM [26 February 2011]

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Next step: Review your GEDCOM [9 June 2011]

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Turvey family of Rylstone [31 July 2011]

Hi Andrew

I have just found you are following the various Turvey pages on this wiki and hope you are researching the Turvey family of the Mudgee and Rylstone area of New South Wales, Australia. If this is so I hope you may be interested to learn the Rylstone Historical Society has set up a wiki for the recording of information which relates to the greater Rylstone area. The wiki is only in its infancy, despite this it has already proven useful to a number of researchers.

A number of wiki members are also researching the Turvey and Sheumack families and have added a great many photographs and other information relating to these families. I hope you may also be interested in adding some of your information to the wiki. With this in mind I would like to invite you to join the wiki, which is free to do, and is open to everyone. Once a member you would need to apply to be made a writer which means you can then add to, or create other pages to suit your Rylstone area interests.

Some pages which may interest you are:

Turvey Album

http://rdhsrwgroup.wetpaint.com/photos/album/193338/Turvey+Album

George Turvey

http://rdhsrwgroup.wetpaint.com/page/Turvey%2C+George+%281818-1862%29

Other individuals can be found at:

http://rdhsrwgroup.wetpaint.com/page/District+Pioneers+and+their+Families

Links to pastoral properties can be found at:

http://rdhsrwgroup.wetpaint.com/page/Pastoral+Properties

The main index to the wiki can be found at:

http://rdhsrwgroup.wetpaint.com/page/Index+to+all+pages+on+the+wiki

To search the content of the pages go to Google and use the following search parameters:

site:rdhsrwgroup.wetpaint.com your search term

E.g., site:rdhsrwgroup.wetpaint.com Dunagree

If you have any queries regarding the wiki please do not hesitate to contact me at rdhswiki@gmail.com

Regards,

Fiona--Rdhswiki 06:14, 19 July 2011 (EDT)

Thanks for letting me know about this! AndrewRT 18:07, 31 July 2011 (EDT)

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Stafford Turveys.ged Imported Successfully [9 August 2011]

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DNA project [20 May 2012]

I completed categorizing the DNA pages. Most are empty source pages created by the bot initially. The Morrow source page does have DNA information. I did not include the surname pages. A few have one name studies but only found links to DNA projects on the surname pages.

If I ever post my Coker Y-DNA results on WeRelate, I would post the DNA results for lineages on the DNA Project page with links to oldest ancestor person pages if they exist. To date we have 4 established lineages but the person pages on WeRelate only relate to 1 lineage. There are some person pages for people that no lineage has been established. I would probably put these results on the person page if a page exists. But not sure. Looking forward to your input. Thanks.--Beth 17:46, 20 May 2012 (EDT)

Next step: Review your GEDCOM [7 July 2012]

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Abel Turvey.ged Imported Successfully [7 July 2012]

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Next step: Review your GEDCOM [22 July 2012]

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Bedfordshire Turveys.ged Imported Successfully [23 July 2012]

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And I thought "crap" was a technical term! [2 October 2012]

Thanks! --jrm03063 17:46, 2 October 2012 (EDT)

Hehe AndrewRT 18:07, 2 October 2012 (EDT)

GEDCOM Export Ready [18 November 2012]

The GEDCOM for tree Tullochs of Westray is ready to download. Click here.

Abel Turvey [18 November 2012]

Dear Andrew i spoke to you before, my name is John Turvey Grandson Of Herbert charles Turvey. His parents were Abel Turvey, Annie Turney, i think you will find that Abel was not buried in Australia. I have his funeral cards with his grave no.

He was buried with Annie Turney in islington cemetry in 1924 London.

Re John Turvey--Johnturvey 18:22, 18 November 2012 (EST)

Hi John, many thanks for the correction and welcome to WeRelate! Do you know the exact date of death and also when his wife Annie died? AndrewRT 18:41, 18 November 2012 (EST)

Abel Turvey Annie Turney [19 November 2012]

Dear Andrew ty for message Abel died on 8th November 1924. Annie Turney Died on September 21st 1943 both are buried in Islington Cemetry London.

re John Turvey--Johnturvey 18:58, 18 November 2012 (EST)

Thanks - added AndrewRT 19:22, 18 November 2012 (EST)

Abel Turvey senior [27 November 2012]

Dear Andrew, i just wondered Abel Turvey senior had a brother called william and if you trace Back some of the Turveys, they had Hebrew names biblical names. There was a Eskiel Turvey Amos Turvey are these are Jewish ? i'm not sure ?.

Cheers John Turvey--Johnturvey 17:17, 27 November 2012 (EST)

I think there was quite a trend to name children after old testament characters, so I'm not sure it's any evidence of Jewish connections, no. I certainly haven't seen anything to suggest that, anyway. AndrewRT 17:22, 27 November 2012 (EST)

Thanks Andrew i didn,t think there are Jewish connections. as we are christian people.--Johnturvey 17:46, 27 November 2012 (EST)

Turveys Islington [27 November 2012]

Thank you for changing the place where My Grandfather herbert Charles Turvey was buried Bethune France. I appreciate your help. I agree we are not Jewish.Andrew do you have any photos of the Turveys or do you know where i can get any.Once again thank you very much for your help.--Johnturvey 17:57, 27 November 2012 (EST)

You're welcome - good to collaborate on here and glad to help where I can. Unfortunately I don't have any photos but will let you know if I find any. AndrewRT 18:05, 27 November 2012 (EST)

Thanks--Johnturvey 18:09, 27 November 2012 (EST)

Next step: Review your GEDCOM [29 November 2012]

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Tullochs of Westray Hugh.ged Imported Successfully [30 November 2012]

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Next step: Review your GEDCOM [1 December 2012]

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James Tulloch of Westray.ged Imported Successfully [3 December 2012]

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How to measure...??? [16 December 2012]

I know I've been wondering and talking about this a little, and I see you've picked up a similar thread. For all sorts of reasons we want to know how we're doing - in both general and specific ways - but havn't put much thought into objective metrics. In no particular order (and this is hardly complete) we seem interested in knowing:

• How are we doing on attracting new members?
• What particular challenges are most frustrating to rookie members?
• How are we doing on keeping members?
• What does our user retention look like now, compared to when we had liberal (reckless?) standards for GEDCOM upload?
• To what extent are the challenges of GEDCOM import affecting people's choice to use or stay with WeRelate?
• Is our database growing (page counts of various types)?
• Is the quality of our database improving?
  • More sources per person page?
  • More sources per family page?
  • More fact entries?
  • More fact entries that have source support?
  • Better consistency results? (fewer mutually exclusive facts)
• Is werelate's influence growing as measured by other sites linking us?
• Is werelate's influence growing as measured by search engine results?
• For non-members who are at least aware of werelate - what is their impression?
• How useful do non-members consider werelate, compared against other sorts of free web resources?

I'm sure you can think of many more. I just looked to see if there was a relevant administrative group for metrics - and while I see lots of groups that would have interests and be consumers of such data - there really didn't seem to be any that has this as a core responsibility.--jrm03063 09:29, 10 December 2012 (EST)

Yes, I agree with all of this, although there could be a danger that you end up with a very long wish list which we're unable to fulfill. Could we take a two-pronged approach - firstly, trying to whittle it down to some key half dozen performance indicators, where if we're doing all that we know we're on the right track and secondly developing some tools that can do the analysis for us? AndrewRT 13:56, 10 December 2012 (EST)

I wasn't suggesting that all of this be done - or even that you take on any of it. I meant only to make the case that it's worth thinking about this systematically. So sure - I agree with a multi-prong approach - but there might actually be three prongs. 1) what does success look like? 2) what measures would give us an idea if we're succeeding (your 2nd prong) and 3) what are the most straight-forward tools or metrics to get that info? --jrm03063 14:38, 10 December 2012 (EST)

Can I play? I help organizations with this type of thing in my "real" work. (ahem)

My contribution would be in the area of helping articulate your hypotheses about what leads to success. Makes it easier to identify what to measure. Would also help you wittle your list down to those things that will most help you measure success.

Jillaine 17:37, 16 December 2012 (EST)

Please do! The page is at User:AndrewRT/Metrics - please either edit the page directly or comment on the talk page. AndrewRT 17:42, 16 December 2012 (EST)

We Relate Featured Page - Week of February 4, 2013 [9 February 2013]

Hi Andrew, just wanted to let you know that your article/project page, Tulloch in Westray, Orkney, Scotland, has been nominated and selected as the WeRelate Featured Page for February 4th (it will be Featured until the week of February 18th). It certainly is a great resource for researchers looking for information on the Tulloch family. Congratulations on a job well-done, and keep up the good work!

Best regards,

Jim Volunteer Administrator, WeRelate.org--Delijim 13:47, 8 February 2013 (EST)

Fantastic news - many thanks! AndrewRT 17:16, 9 February 2013 (EST)

Your ideas are rather ambitious.... [4 April 2013]

While it's very interesting to think about systematically mining genealogical data out of public domains sources, that effort is substantial. I've been working on a project of my own for a year or so - and while I hope to live many more years - I don't expect to see it done in my lifetime.

If you're serious, I wouldn't consider it wise to try to pick a source and then extract research from it in the ordinary way. Instead, I would try to work from something that already had a pretty good transcript, or a functional equivalent, and - instead - focus the effort on linking the transcript back to people in the WeRelate tree.

In the Savage transcript, I've been designating sections and sketches with special templates, besides adding Person page links in the ordinary way. I've also been able to write programs that walk through that information, presently only for reporting purposes, but I know I could mechanically generate source citations for Person pages, if I were so inclined.

You might consider working on the History of Parliament, focusing on the members for which a biography is now present on-line. I've already added some 350+ pages from there, and the WP page claims there are more than 20,000 (though many are not yet available on-line). I think the functional equivalent of a transcript in this case, would simply be a long table (or set of tables) that give the names of the members in the groups and sequence that they're presented on the site.

My thoughts anyway... --jrm03063 15:52, 6 March 2013 (EST)

Yes it's certainly meant to be ambitious! The pages I've quickly brought together come to around 20,000 pages which I think would take 10 people, working an hour a day, a couple of years to complete! The key I think is recruiting more people to the project, working on it together and prioritising the most important pieces. Managing to automate some of the work is key too.

I will take a look at what you have done as it sounds very interesting! Thanks for sharing. AndrewRT 15:57, 6 March 2013 (EST)

I'm taking another look at the History of Parliament. It consists of more than 20,000 individual member biographies (all online), which seem to be of a generally very high standard - professional quality. We already have over 400 Person pages that link to their corresponding History of Parliament page, and I've got some ideas on how to start adding this material relatively easily and systematically. Since part of what I've got in mind reproduces the layout and look of some index pages on their web site, I've reached out to the organization to get guidance on doing what I want without running afoul of the law or, more probably, causing offense. Interested? --jrm03063 12:59, 4 April 2013 (EDT)

McCutcheon Talk Page [7 March 2013]

Hi Andrew, got your message on my talk page regarding the McCutcheon Talk Page. It was my understanding that the discussion regarding your suggestion had been resolved, so I deleted it. Not sure I understand your concern. Since I started the Article Page, I didn't feel it added anything by leaving it thers. Was there some other thing that you wanted to discuss?

Thanks,

Jim--Delijim 16:19, 6 March 2013 (EST)

I've added a response to the talk page discussion - I feel my point remains. AndrewRT 16:21, 6 March 2013 (EST)

Your point has been noted, and I've responded again. Regards,

Jim

Thanks Jim. AndrewRT 14:01, 7 March 2013 (EST)

History of Parliament [8 April 2013]

I have presumed to create the beginnings of a new project page, and to transfer the discussion, formerly located below, to the corresponding talk page. I hope everyone will feel comfortable continuing to contribute there. --jrm03063 13:59, 8 April 2013 (EDT)

New user [3 May 2013]

Bonjour ! Pourrais-tu lire ma question ici ? - Amicalement - Marc ROUSSEL - --Markus3 15:04, 9 April 2013 (EDT)

J'ai écrit à un administrateur, ici. Amicalement - Marc ROUSSEL - --Markus3 03:16, 10 April 2013 (EDT)

Remember our discussion ! ... Please see this ! Amicalement - Marc ROUSSEL - --Markus3 10:56, 3 May 2013 (EDT)

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