
                     *****  I&UK SURNAMES LIST  *****

Everyone in Fido I&UK is invited to submit their British research interests
in the form of a list of surnames, dates and places. With these lists, I
hope to be able to a compile a larger list of research interests. I hope it
will be useful to have this record not only for ourselves, but also for
researchers elsewhere.

The format for submissions is identical to the format of the ROOTS-L lists.
For those who are not familiar with the format, here are a few records
taken from the Wishful Thinking Surname list:

 Barrow       1791  1791 Bredon,WOR maurices
 Bass        c1782  1972 DEV,ENG>GLA,WLS>OXF,ENG rparkhs
 Beese        1845  1903 MON>GLA,WLS randell
 Beesley      1813  1813 Birmingham,WAR maurices
 Bellamy      1845  1962 Birmingham,WAR maurices
 Bendall      1570  1740 Cam,GLS rlockie

You can see that each line consists of 5 fields.

The first field is the surname being researched.

The second and third fields are the earliest and latest years respectively
for which you have information on that surname.

The format of the fourth field is left pretty much up to you, but you
*must* include in this field an indication of the locations you have for
the surname. You can separate parts of the field with commas, etc., in fact
anything that you feel helps to convey what you mean, but do *not* use
spaces or full-stops. For example, using the '>' character to separate two
places suggests some sort of migration between the two places. As in the
second example, you can of course put more than one '>' in the fourth
field.

The fifth field is your nametag. Invent a nametag for yourself of 8 letters
or less. Mine will be 'thoddy'.



                    *****  SUBMITTING YOUR LIST  *****

You can send me your lists via either Netmail or the FidoNet Ireland &
UK Genealogy Echo (echotag I&UK_GENE) and I can then edit out anything
that is not part of the lists themselves, but please bear the following
in mind when you create your own lists:

1)  Each surname requires a line for itself.

2)  Do not use all uppercase for the surname; just write it normally.

3)  Each line complete with nametag *must* finish at column 78 or before.

4)  You must begin each line with a surname at column 2.

5)  The first date must be a four-figure date and begin at column 15.
    An exception to this rule is where you you do not have a definite date;
    in such a case you are permitted to place a 'c' at coloumn 14.

6)  The second date as above, but beginning at column 21. The exception to
    to (5) applies to this field too.

7)  The "locations" field must begin at column 26. Try to use the Chapman
    codes for the counties. A list of Chapman codes is provided in this
    archive.

8)  Put a space after the last charater in the "location" field and then
    put your nametag. The nametag must be in all lower-case and must not
    include non-alphabetic characters. If this takes you past column 78
    then you should reduce the size of the location field.

9)  If you have a variant surname spelling then include it formatted as in this
    example:

    Hodey - see Hoddy (thoddy)

10) Use a plain-text editor. Something like DOS-EDIT is perfect because
    it tells you your current cursor position.

11) I will become frustrated if I have to spend a *lot* of time
    correcting badly submitted lists, so please take care. :-)

12) If you are puzzled or unsure about something, just drop me a message.

13) You needn't sort the list.

14) Don't submit more than 100 surnames (unless you are *sure* you have
    followed my instructions to the letter).





                  *********  ABOUT YOURSELF  ********


You must also include information about yourself; your name, and how
someone may contact you. It will help if you correctly format this too. Use
a maximum of two lines please. Here is what mine will look like:

thoddy   Tim Hoddy, tim@yacc.demon.co.uk  or 2:253/188.20
         41, Y Berllan, Dunvant, Swansea, SA2 8RD  UK.  +44-1792-204801

You needn't include this much if you don't wish; not everyone likes to
broadcast their address and telephone number.



                          ****  AND FINALLY ****

Somewhere in your submission, you *MUST* include a sentence or two giving
me permission to hold any personal details that you submit to me, on my
computer. This is just for the sake of the Data Protection Act.



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