Re: [webpages-l] Forwarded: english version please
At 02:16 PM 5/20/99 +0200, you wrote:
On Tue, 18 May 1999 21:52:46 -0700 (PDT), Richard Heli wrote:
Someone would like to see an English version of the Hessen page.
Rick
Return-Path: BOCADAV@aol.com From: BOCADAV@aol.com Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 23:30:47 EDT Subject: Re: english To: heli@best.com
http://www2.genealogy.net/gene/reg/HES/hessen.html Letzte nderung: 29-Nov-1998 (hz) Hessen-Darmstadt (Hesse-Darmstadt) [GH]
Hi Rick,
the english version is already prepared. At the moment, we fear a flood of requests and research inquiries and still discuss how to handle this problem. The societies in Hessen do not have the manpower to answer 1000 requests or more per year. As soon as we see a solution, we will put the pages on the web.
Regards,
Holger
Hello Holger, Is it really so bad? I maintain the Alsace pages and get perhaps 5-6 emails a year about it. Can it really be true that Hessen would get 1000 requests in a year? What is the experience of the owners of the other regional pages? esp. for the various German states? Dieter has Rheinland-Pfalz -- how much email are you getting from it? I can't imagine anything more important to the project that getting English-language pages out there. If there is an English-language page, even if you don't answer the emails, the English-only amateur genealogists at least get something. Without an English page, they get nothing. Rick
Rick wrote:
Is it really so bad? I maintain the Alsace pages and get perhaps 5-6 emails a year about it. Can it really be true that Hessen would get 1000 requests in a year? What is the experience of the owners of the other regional pages?
I maintain the Schaumburg-Lippe pages, admittedly about the smallest of the former German states. I receive essentially no unsolicited e-mail on it. Quite the opposite, I usually go on search missions for other Schaumburg-Lippers! This shows that genealogy is like real estate. Location, location, location! -- =Jim Eggert EggertJ@LL.mit.edu
Hello, I'm getting ~ five mails in a month - most in english. That Hesse becomes much more mails, could be (perhaps)from the soldiers, which did fight in north america in the 18th century. Dieter ----- Original Message ----- > > Hello Holger,
Is it really so bad? I maintain the Alsace pages and get perhaps 5-6 emails a year about it. Can it really be true that Hessen would get 1000 requests in a year? What is the experience of the owners of the other regional pages? esp. for the various German states? Dieter has Rheinland-Pfalz -- how much email are you getting from it?
I can't imagine anything more important to the project that getting English-language pages out there. If there is an English-language page, even if you don't answer the emails, the English-only amateur genealogists at least get something. Without an English page, they get nothing.
Rick
I'm getting ~ five mails in a month - most in english. That Hesse becomes much more mails, could be (perhaps)from the soldiers, which did fight in north america in the 18th century.
Most people don't know that many of the "Hessians" that fought here weren't from Hessen at all. Many of the Germans who fought here for the British weren't mercenaries either. -- =Jim Eggert EggertJ@LL.mit.edu
On 21 May 99, at 9:44, Jim Eggert wrote about Re: [webpages-l] Forwarded: english version pleas:
I'm getting ~ five mails in a month - most in english. That Hesse becomes much more mails, could be (perhaps)from the soldiers, which did fight in north america in the 18th century.
Most people don't know that many of the "Hessians" that fought here weren't from Hessen at all. Many of the Germans who fought here for the British weren't mercenaries either.
The Ansbacher Jägers always get to become Hessian Jägers. :-( But when you say they weren't mercenaries - perhaps not the individuals but the outfits in general were sent here for money by their 'owners' or sovereigns. The British tried to buy up as many as they could get in Germany. The poor individual bloke had nothing to say about the matter and many tried to escape the assignment. There was even a revolt on one of the ships as they were loading to go down the Rhine. At least the Ansbachers were not too kean on this whole thing and once they got over here showed it with their eagerness to switch sides or surrender quickly. One thing is for sure, their hearts weren't in this thing and the only thing they got out of it was their pay. fred 26 Warren St. Beverly, NJ 08010 or 4788 Corian Court, Naples, FL 34114 or somewhere on the road but connected to fred@compu.com
Fred wrote:
But when you say they weren't mercenaries - perhaps not the individuals but the outfits in general were sent here for money by their 'owners' or sovereigns.
Not the Lippers though. They came because their sovereign thought it was a good idea. -- =Jim Eggert EggertJ@LL.mit.edu
On 21 May 99, at 11:15, Jim Eggert wrote about Re: [webpages-l] Forwarded: english version pleas:
Not the Lippers though. They came because their sovereign thought it was a good idea.
You mean he actually wanted to help the Brits stop this freedom business for moral reasons? Fred 26 Warren St. Beverly, NJ 08010 or 4788 Corian Court, Naples, FL 34114 or somewhere on the road but connected to fred@compu.com
Richard Heli schrieb:
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Hello Holger,
Is it really so bad? I maintain the Alsace pages and get perhaps 5-6 emails a year about it. Can it really be true that Hessen would get 1000 requests in a year? What is the experience of the owners of the other regional pages? esp. for the various German states? Dieter has Rheinland-Pfalz -- how much email are you getting from it?
From the Maus pages I get right now approx. 4 questions per week. I believe this would grow a lot, when we will bring our membership list, with all names and places our members are searching in the very near future online.
We have just yesterday decided, to do this first with our current online available members, to get a feeling, how much the traffic of request will grow. There have also been arguments like in Hessen, can we handle a much bigger number of requests?
I can't imagine anything more important to the project that getting English-language pages out there. If there is an English-language page, even if you don't answer the emails, the English-only amateur genealogists at least get something. Without an English page, they get nothing.
Absolutely agreed. Our aim should be to have nearly all pages in both languages. If one would not like to answer questions by E-Mail, dont put an E-Mail adress on the page and state cleary, that requests could only be handled via snail-mail and (shure) with international reply coupons. -- Mit freundlichem Gruss/ kind regards Klaus-Peter Wessel _____________________________________________________________________ E-Mail: mailto:klaus-peter@wessel.com WWW: http://klaus-peter.wessel.com
participants (5)
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Dieter Krosch
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Jim Eggert
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Klaus-Peter Wessel
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Richard Heli
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W. Fred Rump