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Leo van de Pas

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Aug 3, 2003, 7:33:33 AM8/3/03
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For most people on this list genealogy is a very important part of their life. It is for me and has been for a very long time, I bought my first genealogical book in 1958! First I stored my data in a card system but, in 1990, I met an incredible computor programmer, Gary Louth, who wrote a program, probably, one of the best in the world. Then I was fortunate to get to know Ian Fettes and, after my move to Canberra, met him in real life.

For many years I have wondered what would be the fate of my collection after I lose interest (not likely) or get too old. Ian Fettes and Colin Bevan found a solution, a solution which may only be temporary, keeping in mind the development of technology. My data base is to be used, and not just by me. Ian Fettes and Colin Bevan have made it possible that now anybody can access it. This Internet site can do certain things my own program can't but the reverse also applies.

I hope this is of use for some, especially as I have tried to add so many biographical details.
All kinds of knowledge has been stored, for instance, the Neanderthal man, where did that name come from? With very little effort you can find it in this data base.

www.genealogics.org

Best wishes
Leo van de Pas

Doug Thompson

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Aug 3, 2003, 8:09:37 AM8/3/03
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in article 00da01c359b1$c661fda0$a375fea9@old, Leo van de Pas at
leov...@bigpond.com wrote on 3/8/03 12:33 pm:

> www.genealogics.org

Nice site Leo. Thanks for making it available. It will be so difficult to
kep it all up to date though!

Do you want to know about any errors / omissions?
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Regards

Doug Thompson
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History and Genealogy of the Braose Family

http://freespace.virgin.net/doug.thompson/BraoseWeb/index1.htm (Genealogy)

http://freespace.virgin.net/doug.thompson/BraoseWeb/stage.htm (History)

Dolly Ziegler

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Aug 3, 2003, 8:24:35 AM8/3/03
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Congratulations, Leo, on your new website. Looks good, and I expect to
spend many happy hours there.

THANKS for so generously sharing your many years of "gathering."

Cheers, Dolly in Maryland USA

On Sun, 3 Aug 2003, Leo van de Pas wrote:

> I hope this is of use for some, especially as I have tried to
> add so many biographical details.
>

> www.genealogics.org

Diane Sheppard

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Aug 3, 2003, 12:39:07 PM8/3/03
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Leo,

Thanks for sharing your site with us.

Diane Sheppard

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Aug 3, 2003, 1:42:09 PM8/3/03
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Sunday, 3 August, 2003

Dear Leo,

I have taken a brief break from other tasks to peruse your Genealogics
site. I wish to commend you for putting this mammoth database together, and
thank you for making it available to SGM members and the general public.

Merci beaucoup!

John *


* John P. Ravilious

Ian Cairns

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Aug 3, 2003, 2:36:04 PM8/3/03
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"Leo van de Pas" <leov...@bigpond.com> wrote in message
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> www.genealogics.org

Congratulations on this impressive website, and many thanks for putting this
forward.

Best wishes
Ian


Sally Laine

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Aug 3, 2003, 8:48:18 PM8/3/03
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Thank you so very much Leo, I look forward to many happy hours of browsing.

Sally

Michael Zacchera

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Aug 8, 2003, 11:12:36 PM8/8/03
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Thank You!

Michael Zacchera

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