Date sent: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 19:55:36 -0400 From: SEly153294@aol.com To: ecoln_editor Subject: Thank you.A newcomer to the web, I just discovered your ECOLN site, and plan to return. Genetically speaking, it made me feel much at home. Silas Ely, on the Central Coast of California
Date sent: Sat, 07 Sep 1996 17:17:57 -0700 From: Frank Pennucci skootch@nac.net To: ecoln_editor Subject: HiI was stationed at RAF Alconbury from '69 to '71...
Date sent: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 16:26:27 -0700 From: Jim - renhoek@info2000.net To: ecoln_editor Subject: GeneaologyHi! My name is Amanda. I live in Colorado, USA. One branch of my family came from Cambridge in the early Seventeenth Century. The man who came from Cambridge was named Michael Pierce (b. 1615) , his wife was named Anna Eames (b. 1621) -- she was from St. George. Michael's father the Rev. James Pierce (b. 1589) remained in Cambridge. I know very little about how to find information in foreign countries, I was hoping you might point me in the correct direction. I would also appreciate it if you could tell me where St. George is, Anna was born on Fordington Street.
I would apprecicate it very much if you could E-mail me, but I understand if you do not have any time or information for me.
Thank you very much.
Amanda
From: Robin Drayton scorad@cardiff.ac.uk Date sent: Wed, 29 May 1996 17:05:52 GMT Subject: Cambridgeshire GenealogyGreat to find ECOLN and all the information on East Cambridgeshire. Although I have never lived in Cambridgeshire, my roots go deep (Isleham, Soham & Wicken). My surname also originates from the area.
Visitors to your pages may find the following link to the Cambridgeshire pages on the UK Genealogy server useful. http://midas.ac.uk/genuki/big/eng/CAM/ From there, another link leads to the Cambridgeshire Surname Interest List that I run. At the present time this has 237 entries from around the world.
Best wishes to all readers,
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Robin Drayton
Computer Centre, University of Wales, Cardiff
Email: Drayton@cf.ac.uk
Phone: Internal X4496
UK 01222 874496
Date sent: Sat, 11 May 1996 08:54:43 -0400 (EDT) From: 101377.3113@compuserve.com To: ecoln_editor Subject: Feedback & Research RequestLocal Government Usage of the Internet
I am researching Local Government usage of the Internet in the U.K. and particularly how individual Local Authorities,and other stakeholders in Local Government, have set themselves up as providers of information to their local community and others about themselves.
Could you please send me any information on how you have progressed to date and your plans for the future.
Your site is one of the best examples I have found to date of an internet resource for people to contribute and access information.
I am a senior officer in East Dunbartonshire Council ( one of the 29 new unitaries) in Scotland and I am keen to see how we can learn from people such as yourselves.
The address to send any information to is :-
55, Montrose Drive , Bearsden, GLASGOW G61 3LF
You may be interested to note that I have established a site on :-
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Derek_Jackson
which holds details of my research results to date and contains many hypertext links to sites which I have identified during my research .
I will be updating the site every Sunday evening with the results of my research.
Since I have already visited your site and found it interesting I have included a hypertext link to your site on my home pages - so why not visit my URL address and take a look at the information available.
While you are there you can log any feedback you may have on our Guestbook which will help me progress my research instead of posting information to my conventional or E-Mail address .
This is now Phase 2 of a research project into how Local Government and other stakeholders are using the Internet.
Special emphasis is being placed on trawling and cataloguing the information available which will allow the customers of Local Government to gain access to and contribute to the services available in their local community.
Furthermore the use which Local Government officers can make of the information currently available on the WWW from other stakeholders is also a focal point of the research.
Many thanks for the information which you have published on your site , it has already been of assistance to me in pursuing my project goals.
In conclusion I would be very grateful if you could add my site to your list of links using "East Dunbartonshire Central Services Directorate" as the description.
I think the idea of printing your news and distributing to local newsagents is brilliant!
Derek Jackson
Director of Central Services
East Dunbartonshire Council
11th May 1996
Date sent: Wed, 10 Apr 96 17:37:42 0000 From: Hugh Murray jf32@dial.pipex.com To: ecoln_editor Subject: (no subject)I am writing to complain at the bias shown in your article "Private school to turn allotments into playing fields".
You completely fail to mention the lengths the school went to consult with the allotment holders and to offer them alternative land.
Of course, making a choice between educational facilities and plots which have been enjoyed by local people for generations is a tough choice, but proper processes have been gone through and a democratic decision arrived at.
Would you have taken the same tone if the school had been in the state sector?
Hugh Murray
Date sent: Mon, 08 Apr 1996 13:42:38 +0100 From: Gary Mortensen- Barker com93gmb@bridge.anglia.ac.uk Send reply to: com93gmb@bridge.anglia.ac.uk Organization: ManMedia/Anglia Polytechnic University To: editor@bjga.demon.co.uk Subject: ParanoiaThe INTERNET will be available via their TVs to Cambridge people participating with the Acorn Online Media iTV trial next week.
What's the difference between anti corporate conspiracy theory and paranoia?
Will you show this message or CENSOR it because it does not reflect your views?
Date sent: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 14:07:13 +0000 Subject: Popular music in the fenlandDear Editor,
Sincerely,
Raven Manocchio
rmanocchio@hampshire.edu
From: Steve Fox stevef@synoptics.co.uk Subject: Online Map of CambridgeshireVery nice map/information system. Pity you missed out the largest town in Cambridgeshire - St Neots. I know we're on the border with Bedfordshire but we really are part of Cambridgeshire and I get pretty fed-up when St Neots is ignored by the rest of the county. St Neots is a very pleasant place to live with a long and varied history.
From: Geoff Page - geoff@dial.pipex.com Subject: Poor Site PresentationSorry but I must be brutally frank and honest...nothing personal
As a resident of Stretham in the East Cambs District I'm very disapointed with the speed and presentation of this web site...presumably as a community charge payer I'm paying for it?
The site NEEDS redesigning, it's boring (but factual) and does nothing to enhance the reputation of the web or East Cambs. Get in touch with the local community groups, what about ADEC? Start using the available technology to bring this site up to date, understand the culture of the web!
I'm Bill Currie from Poway California. (San Diego County)..Our Poway Rotary Club has a very diverse group of members. One of our members is an Entomologist who does resarch in South America.
When he returns from his present research project I am looking to showing him the photo: "Entomologists with an oil lamp in a screen, collecting moths at Wicken fen."
Being somewhat new to the "internet" I find it rather exciting to get a feel for things that are going on in "all kinds of places."
Moreover, your community is a place my wife and I MUST visit when we retire early next century.
Sincerely,
Bill & Karen Currie......Scottish spelling.
Would very much enjoy a local news page. Keep up the good work.
Just a quick note to let you know how much I've enjoyed 'visiting' you on the net ! I live in the Atlanta, Georgia, USA area and just happened upon your homepage. I visited the Fen, Ely Cathedral, latest news, and some of your adverts. THANKS for being there and Best Wishes for the new year.
John from Conyers, GA, USA
I had the opportunity to visit Wicken Fen in August. I was delighted to find it on a "shot in the dark" search of the www. More power to you and I will return again to see the things that cost too much to visit in the flesh. Wow, Wicken Fen. Unbelievable!
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