Monaro Pioneers - Contact us

We experience great pleasure in working on the site, and hope you enjoy it too. We look forward to your contributions and involvement. Happy Hunting.

NB PLEASE CONTRIBUTE:
This site has become a very important reference for people researching any aspect of the Eden/Monaro Region.

Please contribute anything you have about your family or about the Monaro. Your material will not be used anywhere else by us.

If you have an established web site about your family, or any relevant aspects of Australian History, we would be very keen to link to that material.

ENQUIRIES ABOUT MATERIAL ON THE SITE

If you wish to know more about a family or subject describe on the site, please contact the contributor in the first instance. If this is unsuccessful contact Ian with genealogical questions or corrections and additions.

GENEALOGICAL CONTRIBUTIONS

Ian Harvey now maintains the new Monaro Pioneers Genealogical Database and edits the Descendancy reports before they are published, often adding a lot of additional information from the data base to the material for you.

The new database currently resides on Ian's computer system, and he uses the Legacy software program to manage it. Ian is dedicated to this project and gives gladly of his time and energy to the site.

To submit new, additional genealogical information or alterations to the family trees please contact Ian.

Our order of preference for the format of genealogical material for submission is
1. Gedcom Files,
2. Text or Word reports,
3. Pdf (They may be published as a pdf, so they shouldn't have any reference to the living),
4. Reports from programs (we usually get them open if we have to, especially if we are told what they are generated from), I prefer photos/graphics etc to be sent separate as .jpg or .tiff files. If you have problems with this let me know. Snail mail gets a very low preference as I can't type fast enough.

HISTORICAL TEXT AND PHOTOS

Contact our Webmaster, Ian Harvey if you wish to make contributions in the form of Historical Text, Historical Documents or Photos for publication to the site.

HISTORICAL TEXT - Our order of preference for the format of submission material is:
1. Word .doc documents
2. Text .txt documents
3. Pdf (They may be publish as a pdf, so they shouldn't have any reference to the living)
4. Printed material in good condition suitable for OCR
5. Reports from programs (we usually get them open if we have to especially if we are told what they are generated from).
6. Snail mail gets a very low preference as I can't type very well.

PHOTOGRAPHS AND DOCUMENTS
I prefer photos to be sent separate as .jpg files, graphics as .tiff files.
Not within a word document or other files.
Attach no more than four pics to an email.
Scan the material at least 100%, larger for smaller photos.
Also they should be a minimum of 150dpi if possible.
Put a brief description in the file name, and what you want as the caption in the email.
I don't mind scanning photos that are sent by mail.
If you have problems with this let me know.

THE NEWSLETTER

Publisher - David Knox

"David's interest in the Monaro rests with his mother’s family and the “Duster Orphans”. Places of interest are Twofold Bay, the Kamaruka Estate, Craigie, Bombala, Bega.
He resides in Sydney’s north western suburbs, and is employed full time and breeds Collies in his spare time."

David's job is to collate emails and other information into a newsletter. He then has the daunting job of emailing them to 800+ subscribers, most of whom have contributed to the website.

Please email David if you wish to be added to the newsletter distribution list.

EMAIL ETIQUETTE?

EMAIL SUBJECT BOX
I would like to take this opportunity to ask anyone sending in material or making enquiries to clearly reference it in the subject heading column. Several times lately I have received non titled emails and my anti virus system picked up one with a virus which I was able to delete before it caused a problem. In future if the is no subject reference I will not open the email and will delete it. We have too much to lose if one of these dreaded viruses infects my computer. I now have over 130,000 names and added information on the system.

GENERAL
Email may seem like the greatest communication invention since speech - but that doesn't mean it's a free-for-all. The less you structure your email communications, the more important it is to follow a few ground rules.

Here are some handy do's and don'ts of email etiquette;
- Do make sure that the content is relevant to the recipients.
- Do be patient, especially with inexperienced email users. Give people the benefit
of the doubt - just because you are familiar with email etiquette, it doesn't mean
that they are.
- Do be careful when replying to mailing list messages, or to messages sent
to many recipients. Are you sure you want to reply to the whole list?
- Do be careful about typing CAPITALS as this is considered to be SHOUTING.
- Don't keep mail on your server longer than necessary, especially large attachments.
- Don't forget to run your email message through spell check for last minute mistakes