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The
Lilley/Matthews Mailout - December 2002
Issue Three
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Welcome to The Lilley/Matthews
Mailout for December 2002. A lot has happened in the months up until now
at the Kevin Matthews
Online History Site since the last
newsletter. Not online, but behind the scenes. Plenty will be happening
over the coming weeks to bring the site up to speed as regards current research
into the family history, etc.
If you have any material that may
be of assistance and you are willing to give it or lend it to me, please
contact me via email at nrbcpastorkev@yahoo.com.au
I am especially interested in gaining photographs,
historical documents, etc.
While I'm raving on here, a special
thanks to my uncle Norman Lilley for passing on a box full of genealogical
material concerning the Lilley family that he has been researching for sometime.
I'm not sure if the baton has now been passed onto me or not as regards
continuing research, but I will do my best with what I have and am able
to yet glean, etc.
So far most information relates
to my mother's side of my family tree (Lilley, Blanch, Jenkinson, Baggs,
etc). However, I am making a few small steps in the direction of my father's
side of my family tree. Any help with information, etc, on this side of
my family tree will also be appreciated.
CONTENTS:
Website Update
Well what's been happening at the
site - not a lot at first glance. Yet many hours of work have been going
on behind the scenes and the fruit of this labour is now making its way
to the site. What work I hear you ask? It is the adding of some 5500 names
(not quite that many yet) to my software database and transforming it to
make it available on the web. This process will include some 10 000 plus
files to be uploaded to the site.
The family tree is not yet completely
available online, but I have begun to upload the files and these will become
increasingly available in the coming weeks. Perhaps I'll put up about 100-200
files a day (it's a slow process).
Visit the family tree page for
more information and to access the tree.
Mail Groups and Communities
Please consider joining The Lilley Family Mail Group
or The Matthews Family Mail Group
also, for the purpose of receiving Emails from different family members
all at the same time and being able to therefore share in a continuing online
discussion with one another. All you have to do to join any
of the mail groups is simply enter your email address below and press enter.
It's that simple and you will then be able to participate with other family
members in on-going discussions about what's happening in the family, with
people you all know, etc. Give it a whirl.
Please join us here and make
this site a meeting place for those in the family around the world.
Family Tree
I have been
trying to put together the family tree and put it online for all interested
parties, however I have hit a snag for the time being. The software I have
been using has a bug and I need to wait until the next version is available.
They tell me at GenoPro that they are addressing the bug in the new version.
So sadly, until then the family tree is not going very far.
That's what
I thought a few months ago anyway. Now I have a new software program that
I am using to put together the family tree. Visit
the family tree page for more information and to access the tree via this
new program.
Otherwise
to view what is currently available with GenoPro, please take the time to
download the excellent family tree software from GenoPro (though it has
a bug or two currently) or you will not be able to view the Family Tree.
This product is in fact shareware, but you are able to still use it for
free. It's only 1.4 Mb, so it won't take very long to download and then
install. This may be done via the GenoPro homepage at http://www.genopro.com/.
When you
have successfully installed the software, click on the link to my family
tree and check the button for open from here. The family tree will then
open in your Internet browser. Note that
is best to be using Internet Explorer 3.0 or later to view the family tree.
If you don't have this installed you will need to have an Internet browser
with an ActiveX plug-in.
Another suggestion would be to
actually right click on the link to my family tree and open it in another
window. If you do this you can simply close the window when you have finished
viewing it. Apparently in some browsers you are unable to use the back button
when you have finished viewing the family tree, therefore a separate window
is probably best.
So what's the link to the family
tree - here it is now: Kevin
Matthews Family Tree.
If you are able to give information
that will help in putting the family tree together, please pass it on to
me. I'm looking for records, photos, background information, etc.
Kevin's Wilderness Journeys
Interested in looking at photos
of places I have been over the years - then Kevin's Wilderness Journeys
is the place to go. Here you will photos and information regarding various
places throughout Australia. A fair amount of the information currently
on the site was put together before the web site came about, so it's a little
light on some information currently. All new trips I take will have more
detailed information, links, etc.
I have recently updated the photos
available on the site to include the last trip to Kaputar National Park,
not far from Narrabri.
