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The
Lilley/Matthews Mailout - July 22, 2002
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Welcome to The Lilley/Matthews
Mailout for July 22, 2002. Firstly a thank you to those who have given me
a loan of photos and other various forms of information. It all helps of
course and slowly this family online history site is beginning to take shape.
Anything that you can loan or send to me regarding my family will be welcomed
and if it's of any historical significance at all (even slightly) I will
try and use it on the site.
What sort of things can be used?
Well it may be photos, historical documents, background information on places
where family members lived, momentos, etc. See, just about anything. I can
try and make it all tie together somehow.
One of my aims with this site is
to make as widely available as possible (for family members far and wide)
anything of consequence to our family. There may be some one interested
in our family roots, some one that wants to see what somebody looked like,
some one that wants to see where the family came from, etc. Over time I
hope this site may be able to provide some answers.
Anyhow, I hope you find this particular
issue of 'The
Lilley/Matthews Mailout' useful.
CONTENTS:
Website Update
Mail Groups and Communities
Family Tree
Kevin's Wilderness Journeys
The Lilley/Matthews Family
Forum
Website Update
Well I have finally got on with
some new work at the web site, though no great leaps ahead. The main increase
in content is in the way of photos now available at 'The Lilley/Matthews Photo Album.'
There are a couple of the photo albums that have no photos yet, but the
majority of them do. Perhaps you have more photos that I could add to the
albums? Give me a yell if you do and we'll see what we can arrange. Contact
me via email at nrbcpastorkev@yahoo.com.au
Please remember that this site
is all about our family history, so anything of relevance to that can be
added to the site here. I'm very liberal when it comes to an interpretation
of that theme, so please let me know about anything that may have even the
slightest relevance.
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.
To view
what is currently available 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.
The Lilley/Matthews Family Forum
The Kevin Matthews Family Online History Site also
has a forum called The Lilley/Matthews Family
Forum. The theory behind the forum is that visitors to the site
can post questions or comments regarding the site, the family or whatever.
Others can then view the questions or comments and reply to them - all on
the site.
Feel free to pop in to the forum and leave a comment.
I do intend to police the forum a little and remove bad language, etc.
