Sunday, October 30, 2005

what war costs

truth and reconcilliation !!!

I was born in 1936 and as a child I heard the sound of the blitz on Birmingham and Coventry

my father
Watkins, Alfred Henry (David) b: 17 AUG 1907 in Usk Monmouthshire d: 24 SEP 1942 in HMS Somali


four great uncles
Watkins, Horace Holmes b: ABT 1891 in Usk d: 21 OCT 1914 in Ypres Salent, Belgium
Watkins, Iltyd Edwin Maitland b: 25 MAR 1890 d: 7 MAY 1915 in Panel 50 YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIALIeper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Watkins, Mervyn Holmes b: BEF SEP 1893 in the Wern, Abersychan Pontypool 11a 165 d: 18 SEP 1918 in of war wounds
Watkins, Vivian Holmes b: ABT 1890 in Usk d: 20 FEB 1915 in Of war wounds Westminster Hospital

my uncle
Lapham, Alfred George (Dick) b: 19 OCT 1912 in AMW BB Reg Winterbourne Chipping Sodbury d: 1 JUL 1945 in Royal Australian Army (Prisoner of Japanese)

another uncle's first wife
Williams, Dorothy Lavinia b: MAY 1890 in Cardiff June 11a 345 d: 26 APR 1942 in 25 King Edward Avenue, Oldfield Park Bath in BLITZ

my cousin's cousin
James, William Henry (Harry) b: 19 MAR 1920 d: 14 SEP 1943 in RAF killed in action Crashed in sea off Korsør, Denmark


I have read Slaughter House 5
and the diary of Victor Klemperer
so I know exactly what the British and Americans did to Dresden

The good Germany has done far outweighs the period of insanity from 1914 to 1945

I saw the rebuilding of Coventry cathedral in the 1950ies and now Dresden is done too.

Friday, October 14, 2005

XStandard: XHTML WYSIWYG editor

XStandard: free standards-compliant XHTML WYSIWYG editor

XStandard is the leading standards-compliant plug-in WYSIWYG editor for Windows desktop applications and browser-based content management systems (IE/Mozilla/Firefox/Netscape).

The editor generates clean XHTML Strict or 1.1, uses CSS for formatting, and ensures the clean separation of content from presentation. Markup generated by XStandard meets the most demanding accessibility requirements. The editor's cool features include drag & drop file upload, spell checking and an image library that integrates tightly with your CMS.

Thursday, October 13, 2005

XHTML converting from HTML

"W3Schools was converted from HTML to XHTML the weekend of 18. and 19. December 1999, by Hege Refsnes and St�le Refsnes.

To convert a Web site from HTML to XHTML, you should be familiar with the XHTML syntax rules of the previous chapters. The following steps were executed (in the order listed below):"
read on XHTML HowTo:

RootsWeb: Country Abbreviations and Character Codes

RootsWeb: Country Abbreviations and Character Codes:
"The RootsWeb Surname List (RSL) and some mailing lists use standardized abbreviations to designate countries and other regional locations. This index, compiled by RootsWeb volunteers, is a collection of Canadian and United States postal codes, Chapman codes, three letter ISO codes for nations, Norwegian standard county codes, Swiss canton postal abbreviations, plus many abbreviations we invented for historic German and Austrian states and other areas. "

Some Country Codes from ISO 3166-1

Monday, October 10, 2005

Treasures Of The Past!

Treasures Of The Past!
If you want the music to stop playing just hit the "stop" button on your browser after the page is loaded. The music is "Grandpa" by "The Judds".

"Bill Cribbs" - Google Search

because of
Ancestry.com - Affiliates: "What our affiliates are saying
'The Ancestry affiliate program has virtually changed my family's life. My genealogy web sites have become my full-time employment. The affiliate program staff is great to work with!'
- Bill Cribbs

'I'm proud to have my websites associated with Ancestry.com, the leading source for online family history. Not only am I able to offer my readers top-notch databases from Ancestry, but also the money I make from Ancestry enables me offer large databases for free on my websites. It's win-win for genealogists!'
- K.R."



Wednesday, October 05, 2005

Indexed GEDCOM Method for Genweb Authoring

Genweb Authoring: "Try Worldconnect Instead...We host your database so you don't have to !! "
snipped
Original Programs © Copyright 1996 by Tim Doyle
Some programs © Copyright 1996 by Randy Winch <gumby@edge.net>

Randy Winch - a master mind of World Connect

"Randy Winch" - Google Search

RootsWeb Message Boards [ WorldConnect Suggestions ]: "Worldconnect Updates : Randy Winch -- 4 Oct 2005 "

RootsWeb Message Boards - Message [ WorldConnect Suggestions ]: "Sorry about the failed updates folks. Worldconnect has had several problems back-to-back. It should be back on schedule update wise as of tomorrow afternoon.

Sorry for the delay."


RootsWeb Message Boards - List Author RandyWinch

RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project: RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project Global Search: "RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project
Global Search
Names: 401403136 Surnames: 4040832 Databases: 377266"



MY MOTHER IS HERE Results 1-4 of 4

Name
Birth/Christening Date Place
Death/Burial Date Place
Database

Lapham, Alison Mary
16 MAY 1908
Filton, Gloucestershire UK
22 DEC 1999
Heartlands Hospital, Bordesley Green, Birmingham, West Midlands UK

hughw36 NAME OF MY DATABASE


Father: Alfred Thomas Lapham Mother: Florence Caroline Evans "Spouses": Olive (alias Rougenez) Meade, Dorothy Hare, Joseph S Forman, Alfred Henry (David) Watkins

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Lapham, Alison Mary
16 MAY 1908
Filton, Gloucestershire UK
22 DEC 1999
Heartlands Hospital, Bordesley Green, Birmingham, West Midlands UK

jones_raglan NAME OF MY DATABASE


Spouse: , Alfred Henry (David) Watkins

==

Lapham, Alison Mary
16 May 1908
Filton, Gloucestershire UK
22 Dec 1999
Heartlands Hospital,Bordesley Green, Birmingham, West Midlands UK

:3011593 NAME OF MY DATABASE


Father: Alfred Thomas Lapham Mother: Florence Caroline Evans 3 friends and one Spouse: Joseph S Forman, Dorothy Hare, Alfred Henry (David) Watkins, Olive (alias Rougenez) Meade

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Lapham, Alison Mary
16 MAY 1908
Filton, Gloucestershire UK - Chipping Sodbury Gloucestershire
22 DEC 1999
Heartlands Hospital, Bordesley Green, Birmingham, West Midlands UK

lapham NAME OF MY DATABASE

Father: Alfred Thomas Lapham Mother: Florence Caroline Evans Spouse: Alfred Henry (David) Watkins

THE OTHER "SPOUSES" WERE LIFELONG FRIENDS AND ARE ARTIFACTS OF THE CONVERSION FROM .ftm TO .ged FORMAT