Hi Rob,
Thanks for the congratulations and memories - we all do so many things
over our life it is nice to think back over them.
Those 'reverse marriages' came about because I was good at looking for
matches on the old fiche (trying to help Liz find ancestors) but one
day I realised I was going over the same ground time and time again. So
I talked Liz into typing the database while I read it out. Onto an old
Toshiba laptop pre WWW days. Then we did the daring thing and converted
them to microfiche and began distributing them. I think we were both
stunned at the response. For years it felt like cheating to find matches
so easily :) What it has now become is beyond what our wildest dreams
were.
A look back like this is a chance to reflect on how ancestor searching
has change so dramatically now that computers and the internet have
become commonplace. And TROVE!
Thanks again, Rom
regards John
On 12/12/2016 7:20 AM, Rob Nelson, Perth WA wrote:
'Morning ALL ...
On 12/12/2016 6:32 AM, Archie wrote:
> btw, Liz's comment was in relation to a long-standing (50years +) marital situation
I just had to congratulate John (Archie) and Liz (Buff) on the "50+" milestone ... and assure the general ALL that this is one case where an obsession with family history hasn't driven a couple apart, except for the interstate rivalries over ancestral roots <g>.
I first met this couple back in the late 70s in the early days of personal computing when they ran the "Sega computer users' group" and our common interest was the computer my eldest son was experimenting with.
My next meeting was almost a decade later in the Battye Library where they were working on assembling the original 'Reverse Marriage Index' ... they can even be blamed for the crazy sounding name which describes the original project so well!
They are responsible for the years 1906-1920 which were probably the most tedious to transcribe, even if there were less marriages in those years. They also followed directly on from the consolidated Pioneers Index that had just been released.
At that time we were still operating the fido-net version of this forum out of the 'Dark Closet BBS' and they took my invitation under consideration. As you can gather, the rest is history, and although Liz has been a regular contributor ever since, I was delighted when John approached me recently and said he wanted back in.
I'm sure that everyone, contributors and lurkers alike, welcome his input.
Cheers, ROB!
rnelson@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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