From Robin-P at slingshot.co.nz  Wed Mar  4 00:01:19 2009
From: Robin-P at slingshot.co.nz (Robin-P)
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 13:01:19 +1300
Subject: [Genealogy-l] Growing use of info pages
Message-ID: <001601c99c5c$58c99520$0201a8c0@home>

I'm impressed at how many of our newer
contributors are diving in at the deep end
creating info pages. Seems to be every second or
third new contributor.

There are distinct advantages in having an info
page attached to an individual's article. Less
typing in the long run, and the software can call
up such a page in a number of ways. See the Barack
Obama page for one example.

Those of you who have not yet made any info pages
might find them rewarding, and it's not much extra
work at the start. An easy way into it is probably
to follow the "Create a page" link for your next
new person article and go down to the alternative
options, not the top "quick 'n' easy" option. Or
straight into
http://genealogy.wikia.com/wiki/Help:Alternative_types_of_page_for_individual

[Mr] Robin Forlonge Patterson,
88 Motuhara Road, Plimmerton, Porirua City 5026,
New Zealand
Member of NZ Society of Genealogists since 1974
http://wc.rootsweb.com/~robinp
And see http://genealogy.wikia.com/ a free
cooperative MediaWiki site


From Robin-P at slingshot.co.nz  Tue Mar 17 11:57:36 2009
From: Robin-P at slingshot.co.nz (Robin-P)
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 23:57:36 +1200
Subject: [Genealogy-l] Fw: Squidoo: You have new comments!
Message-ID: <007201c9a6f7$90fb6fe0$0201a8c0@home>

Now I hope some more of the site's contributors
go and look at the lens too, and answer the easy
questions and write something in the guestbook.

[Mr] Robin Forlonge Patterson,
88 Motuhara Road, Plimmerton, Porirua City 5026,
New Zealand
Member of NZ Society of Genealogists since 1974
http://wc.rootsweb.com/~robinp
And see http://genealogy.wikia.com/ a free
cooperative MediaWiki site


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <squidteam at squidoo.com>
To: <Robin-P at ...
Subject: Squidoo: You have new comments!


> Hi ,
>
> Lucky duck. There's a new comment in the
Guestbook on your lens "Familypedia is great for
genealogy"
(http://www.squidoo.com/Genealogy-Wiki):

>
 It sounds like a great resource, and you explain
it very well! Especially nowadays, with families
scattering far and wide, this is a good way to get
back in touch with roots. Genealogy Wikipedia also
sounds better than Ancestry.org (though I've only
tried the latter a little).
>
Small suggestion: a few borders or pictures-- even
just leaves! -- to add a little splash to your
lens. The content is the important part, though,
and that's first-rate!
>