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SITE MAP & HOW TO USE THIS
SITE
This site would have been impossibile without
the excellent instruction from my friend Morgan Hay on how to
design a site nor without the advice from my niece Korina Stark
on how to do parts of it even better (some of which I have yet
to implement!).
It is also true that once built, this site would have been an
empty cupboard were it not for the remarkable research tenacity
of Wendy Jack of Australia and Tina Staples of HSBC Archives in
London. Many of the pictures and text come from family members
such as Ian Jackson (South Africa), Brian McDonald (England &
Ireland), Dorothy Robertson (Richmond, Canada) and Mim Moorhead
(Vancouver, Canada). Not that these are the only people - but
they are the ones whose time and resources were essential to the
success of this venture. I cannot thank them enough.
Sharon Oddie Brown, July 15, 2003
Since I started, I would be remiss were
I not to mention Christine Wright of Gilford Castle who moved my
research forward immensely; also Peter McWilliams, Dr. Tom McNeil,
Eilie McBride, Venetia Bowman-Vaughan, Annabel & Stanley
Meadows, and several others who have asked to remain anonymous.
And there are countless more!
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SEARCHES
-I
haven't installed a search engine on this site, but there is a nifty way
to search it using Google. First you use their advanced search and in
the "Find Results section" type in all the words that you want
to find on the same page. Then, under "domain" type: <http://www.user.dccnet.com>
This will then list all the pages on my site. The only downside is that
it may include a few items not on my site but on the sites of other users
of dccnet.com, but they should be obvious. If you are able to install
the Google Toolbar, then your work is made even easier to spot the item
that you want.
HOME
PAGE - This page simply welcomes
you. Hello.
The contents of the hyperlinks,
which stretch horizontally beneath The Silver Bowl on this first page,
are described beneath. The photographs on this
site are mostlyl in black and white as I am trying to keep the size
of the site beneath a specified maximum. Since this is my first attempt
at site design, it is deliberately pedestrian (the fewer bells and whistles
- the fewer mistakes). This means that you will have resort to the
back button on your browser when you want to go back a page or two.
In time, I will figure out how to accomplish this with more elegance.
I welcome suggestions. Truly.
BIOGRAPHIES
- On this page, I have already
posted close to 100 biographies (not yet polished writing - most in
early draft form). Some of them are quite brief while others stretch
to a dozen pages or more. In time, I will enter more hyperlinks so that
you - the reader - can click back and forth between generations and
such.
HISTORY
- There are only 6 hyperlinks to stories on this page so far, but this
part of the site will grow over the next several months as I write more
of them. This is where I plan to place historical stories - ones that
situate our family members within the larger history of their times.
Within some of the family name histories are links to other sources,
chart and hyperlinks to other documents held elsewhere in the site.
TIMELINES
- This part of the site has a makeshift look to it right now but it will
start to come together as I enter in more data and then link the data
to other parts of the site. I have inserted family member's births and
deaths into the timelines of notable historical events (and this is only
a very small start!).
MAPS -
Right now all that is in here is a chart listing places of family interest
in Ireland and their connection to our genealogical story. Soon, I will
hyperlink these places to maps and probably break the entries out a bit
so they will be easier to navigate (rather than one big file). I will
also make some maps of my own to post. Personally, I find it helpful to
place people in a geographical context and hope my visitors will too.
DOCUMENTS
- There are links to assorted photo albums, news clippings, wills,
leases, marriage agreements - you name it. The Birthday Book
of Jeannie Moorhead is
also amazing. She received it at age 12 in 1890 and it has more than
300 entries in it. This would represent the social circle which she inhabited
at the time, rich by anyone's measure. The Register of the Royal
School of Armagh is also a most useful document. I have
transcribed the entries that relate specifically to our known family.
.Amy
Lloyd's History done
in 1951 is also a cracking good read. Also not to be missed are the Will
and Will Abstracts. And there is more.
LETTERS
- There are hundreds of pages of letters linked to this page - all footnoted
so the reader has a reasonable chance of figuring out who is who (although,
I could be wrong on a few of them - this is as much an art as a science).
These letters are invaluable for shedding light on the intertwined nature
of our family relations in the late 19th Century as well as some of their
personal and business dealings.
FAMILY TREES
- There are several dozen trees, but they may not all be up to date.
The most up to date information in family tree form can be found at http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=silverbowl
MISC
- This is that special place where I am tucking all the tidbits that have
no other obvious home. The most important tidbit is quite possibly the
growing list of family members in the 19th century who were part of the
story of commerce in the Far East and in particular, the success of the
Hong Kong Shanghai Bank. This is the story that I expect to focus on over
the next year or three. We can blame The Silver Bowl.EMAIL
ME ALL YOUR SUGGESTIONS! Since
I have never designed a web site before and am also fairly new to the
whole pusuit of family history, I still have a lot to learn from those
who have put in considerably more time in the trenches (or more correctly,
the microfiche!).I do try to respond to all those who write, but if your
email has a block on it, then my replies get bounced. If I get deluged
from time to time, please forgive me if it takes me some time to respond.
Thanks. Sharon Oddie Brown, December, 2003
PS. My own bio is on the biography page - I'll
leave you to find it on your own. Cheers!
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