Gerald has finished transcribing the package of documents relating to The Rising Sun in Ramsgate. He told me that there have been minor corrections to the ones already published, so I am putting the first 3 up on the web again and will do the rest in the fullness of time.Click here to read
Deed 1: Nicholas Spencer granting land to his son and future daughter in law, 1641
I feel it is very important to put them onto the internet as this will help people trying to unravel their family’s history, as the search engines find the all important names.
thanks Michael it is so interesting to read and you do us a great service cheers Mate
ReplyDeleteI know I dont feel velly well but I have been with this one on and off for a couple of hours I love old documents Don
ReplyDeleteI was just thinking about you when I was on the business link web site. I found a grant that might be available to help fund the work you are doing with old documents and putting them on-line. I only know as much as is on the page but I thought I should bring it to your attention.
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Glad you are enjoying the document, and Matt I have considered applying for a grant, the local history is something that I do for fun, rather than profit, this means that I only have to do it when I feel like it. My concern is that if I got a grant I would be obliged to do it whether I felt like it or not, I would also have to do my web publishing to a much higher standard. Instead of the various websites arranged like a rambling secondhand bookshop, which people can take or leave, it would all have to properly organised. No more clicking on a link and finding a few hundred pictures the you didn’t know were there.
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