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Hi Tom. Thank you for your detailed comments on the WeRelate:Watercooler! I really appreciate your feedback. Just in case I'm not being clear in the explaining sources, I've added a couple of fake sources to Family:Robert Sherrat and Isobel Spring (1) illustrating entering the URL directly into a text field, and referencing a "personal source" in case you want to create personal sources. (Don't know if you do.) Please remove them after you've looked at them.--Dallan 13:08, 18 December 2006 (MST)
Hi Tom,
I started a discussion at Source Talk:Scotland, Old parochial registers that I thought you would interest you. You and I seem to be the most likely to be changing the old parochial register sources.--Lauren 06:57, 19 December 2006 (MST)
Hi,
We just launched a early release of the Family Tree Explorer. In case you'd like to try it out, I've taken the pages that you've created and added them to a tree called "mytree". So when you launch Family Tree Explorer, you should be able to click on File then Open to view your tree. I'd be interested to get any feedback you have. We're going to be working on it intensely over the next several weeks, so this is a great time to have some input into how it will turn out.--Dallan 23:37, 20 January 2007 (MST)
Tom,
I've cleaned up the Anstruther pages. I haven't marked any for deletion, but I did rename two and shift some of the content around. The town of Anstruther was officially two Royal Burghs, Anstruther Easter and Anstruther Wester, so there is one page for the overall town and a page for each burgh. Anstruther Easter made up the whole parish of Anstruther Easter, so the two pages (town and parish) could be combined if we prefer. The parish of Anstruther Wester consisted of the Royal Burgh of Anstruther Wester plus additional areas, so the town and parish need to remain separate. It's not the clearest of location divisions, but I think I've added enough commentary to the pages to make it understandable.
--Lauren 10:24, 31 October 2007 (EDT)
Hi Tom, I wanted to let you know that I'm thinking about running an automated process to add "previously-located-in" entries to all places with an FHLC link that corresponds to where the FHLC says the place was located in. When I did the initial merge, I unfortunately often threw this information away. It's been critical to get this information back for places like the Czech Republic and Wales so I've written a program to automatically update the place places. I thought I'd run it over Scotland as well. In preparation for this I'm swapping the located-in and previously-located-in places where the previously-located-in field is actually the current located-in place because the program expects this. (I've modified the program to recognize your link-fhlc template.) Once I get the list of updates to be made I'd like to show them to and ask you to check to make sure they look reasonable before I actually apply them if that's alright.--Dallan 15:13, 7 November 2007 (EST)
I also moved
and put them all directly under Scotland. I hope that's correct.--Dallan 16:06, 7 November 2007 (EST)
Another question for you -- do you think we should put Place:Cromartyshire, Scotland and Place:Ross-shire, Scotland directly under Scotland, and add a see-also link to Place:Ross and Cromarty, Scotland? Were they ever located in Ross and Cromarty?--Dallan 16:44, 7 November 2007 (EST)
Sorry, more questions
I'm going through Scotland today to make sure that the FHLC references are on the traditional county pages and not unitary authority pages with the same name. I'll run the FHLC updater tomorrow and send you and [User:LSnellgrove]] the results to review before I apply them.--Dallan 09:26, 8 November 2007 (EST)
Hi Tom,
I'm going through Scotland for the last time before the renaming and I have just a couple final questions that I hope you can answer:
Scotland is looking great(!) by the way.--Dallan 11:01, 4 December 2007 (EST)
Hi, I wanted to make sure that you saw the proposal I left for a final place review on WeRelate talk:Place review. I'd love to get your comments on it. This is all stemming from the discussion you and I and Lauren had a couple of weeks ago. Please let me know what you think. Thanks!--Dallan 11:38, 21 November 2007 (EST)
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Hi Tom
No, no problem transferring the information. I don't routinely add that information into the text fields as its not important for my purposes on WeRelate. Heretofore it didn't much matter because the search engine was not especially effective. That's changed, so there's more reason to have the data in those fields now. Its not something I'm likely to do anytime soon myself, but it harms nothing to add it, and has, as you point out, some advantages.
Thanks,
Bill
