New documents are now available in the discussion room, including a look at the life of James Baker

End of year statistics for 2020.

2627 website visits since December 2019

95% of Visitors are from

UK
US
Canada
Ireland
Australia

Remaining 5 % are from

Pakistan

Argentina 

Bangladesh

Chile

Egypt

Finland
France

Greece

India

Indonesia

Japan

Kenya

Nepal

Oman

Philippines 

Puerto Rico
Russia

South Africa

Spain

Sweden

Taiwan

Thailand

Turkey
Vietnam

 

Location of the most recent 150 users is shown on the world map graphic in the right hand column...this shows increasing use of the site in East Coast USA

The site has 4800 records

Bruce Baker - It’s not all roses.....Story document is available to members via the discussion forum

 

Bruce Baker

 We’ve been searching for a photo of Bruce Baker. Brian Timmins has suggested this one could be him, but we’re not sure? Can anyone help ?

Laurie Wileman's Family History Notes

 These have been made available to the Discussion Group. Click on blue button

Commenting

A comment is welcome against any entry that is followed by a grey box...

Which contains a comments tab. Click on this to make a comment.

 Where no comment has been made so far it will say ‘No comments’........

User Guide

 Simple one page user guide to get you started on using wbrq02...available to members in ‘discussion group’ ...the big blue button...

Famous battles

The following is a list of  YouTube videos that provide the background to the experiences of some of our relatives who fought in many  of the most well known battles/campaigns. Click to view.

Alternatively these videos can be watched on the 'youtube channel'. After clicking on the large pink 'view family youtube button'   click on the chosen film from the 'Famous battles' playlist.

 

Napoleon’s Vietnam - Spain

https://youtu.be/8ow6pq1Pp_M

Battle of Coruna

https://youtu.be/EFLOJZoln38

Battle of Waterloo

https://youtu.be/nDZGL1xsqzs

Battle of the Somme

https://youtu.be/lcICD9XDQ8w

 Battle of Arnhem

https://youtu.be/G2obwt4n1G0

2nd Boer War rare footage

https://youtu.be/D17UQ4BhkmQ

A black week for the British - Boer War 

https://youtu.be/DrpT6aQ4w7g

Request website version when viewing via mobile phone

To get the full benefit of the website it is important that users viewing via mobile phone request 'website view' when prompted. You may find holding the phone 'landscape'  offers best  results. Any problems get in touch. 

Mobile Friedly Website

Some changes have made by google which may have effected the page views on you mobile screens. Any feedback welcome on where improvements can be made....

Important ‘Other’ Surnames

Page 14 will now have regular updates on the important ‘other’ families in this family history. These may  contain over 100 names and this maybe a useful link to other researchers


The following table shows all of the surnames with a significant presence in our family history research. Many of these have over 100 people represented in our family tree. In order to help researchers we have constructed this quick guide to give a steer as to whether our site is worth further investigation.....

Surname. County of interest Focal point(10-15 radius)

Alder Gloucestershire   Kings Stanley  
Benson Derbyshire  Derby
Bourne Staffordshire North in the Moors
Child Berkshire Maidenhead
Corbett Worcestershire  Old Swinsford 
Dennis Leicestershire.   Measham
Evans Leicestershire Measham
Foster Leicestershire. Appleby Magna
Flynn Limerick. Foynes
Gettings Pembrokeshire Narberth
Goodhead Staffordshire. Burton upon Trent
Hall Leicestershire. Ashby de la Zouche
Johnson Leicestershire. Staunton Harold
Lakin. Derbyshire. Melbourne
Lusty Gloucestershire. Kings Stanley
Marshall Suffolk   Sudbury
Muggington Derbyshire Hognaston
O’keeffe. Limerick. Ballyhahill
Pearce. Middlesex. Ealing
Shannahan Limerick Australia
Skidmore.   Worcestershire. Dudley
Timmins Worcestershire   Stourbridge
Tivey Derbyshire Melbourne
Tudor Staffordshire Cheddleton
Yates. Derbyshire Brailsford

Identifying old family photos

Can you identify these old family photos..If you have any ideas please enter them into discussion forum.To do this either enter the discussion group by simply pressing the big blue square on the right  or use the  page 0 tab above. Alternatively enter your ideas into the comment box ‘posted by’ below, whichever is easier for you..

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Australia Research

This is a great resource to use when researching Australian links www.trove.nla.gov.au

Relatives

The following grid is a useful guide to understanding some of the terminology around what type of relationship exists between two members of the same family.

Website User Statistics

 Website Users  for 1st year of operation

Approx 800 Site Visits to  WBRQ02.com
Approx 100 different users of  Tribalpages database


95% of Visitors are from

UK
US
Canada
Ireland
Australia

Remaining 5 % are from

Pakistan
Indonesia
France
Russia
Vietnam
Japan
Thailand
Egypt
Nepal
Sweden
Bangladesh
Chile
Oman
Taiwan
Turkey
Spain
Argentina
Kenya
India
Philppines

 

Using mobile devices to acces wbrq02.com

The site should now be accessible and usable on most devices, however there are so many combinations of type / model/ operating systems/ browsers that there are bound to be a few issues. Most of these can be resolved by searching the internet for the right solution for example .. you may not realise that you can request a 'desktop view' on your mobile. If you're stuck drop a line in the discussion room..its likely somebody will have already have the answer.

Note also there is a Tribal pages App you can  download from the Apple store or google play . . Its easy to use but to make it suitable for mobile devices it has reduced functionality. If possible i'd recommend you add this to your device as an alternative view..it handles photo records well if you

want to focus on them.

WBRQ02 Progress update

21st August 2019            Update

The site has moved up the google search rankings and will often appear within the first  4 pages depending on the search criteria.

The site has been running for about 10 months. Over that time a number of improvements have been made , most recently the introduction of a discussion forum. In terms of milestones we have reached the 100 individual users target and the number of names on the site is 2000. So far the site has/is being used by people in USA, Canada  Australia, France, Ireland, Vietnam, Japan, Thailand, Egypyt, Nepal, Sweden, Bangladesh, Chile, Indonesia. The site  typically gets 2-5 visits per day

For the next six months it would be good if you could hit about 130 distinct user mark.

We have some good stories documented  with  a bit of a backlog to catch up on. However we need more.  Ideally supported by photos, voice recording or video.

Family specific updates will be posted against respective family tree entries P5-P8

Our Top 100 Genealogy Websites - WBRQ02.com

Click on link below to access hyperlinked pdf doc.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/14vbrorp1XawCJnDiiKqZxNpPpWbdgyoS/view?usp=drivesdk

Comments vs Discussion

Any comments on the specific blog/diary entries below please enter in the comments field following the posted message. Any requirement for a detailed discussion across the group should be entered  as a forum item P0.

Progress Pages for the Core Families DP5-DP8

These will summarise where we are up to with each of the core and close families and will give an idea of what we'll be aiming for over the next few months and what issues will need to be addressed

Google Groups

Google Groups is being tested over the next few days as the likely  choice for our discussion group. The aim is to keep it as simple as possible and cater for periods of low activity and then short bursts of high activity. 

Photos, Audio and Video

Thanks for all the photos you have loaded so far.  Remember you can load these yourself for your immediate family.  

I would like to get more some old audio/video samples to put on the site as they really do add something special. I'm aware that some of you may have these  treasured items tucked away but now you can't  use them because they're in the wrong format and/or they need seriously editing to make them interesting and focused on the person we are linking to.

In either case I should be able to help. Alternatively, I expect there are some members who have already tackled this issue of lots of recordings on out of date formats?

Introduction to WBRQ02.

To kick things off I thought i’d give a quick summary of where we are at and what are the plans for  WBRQ02.

The site was launched four months ago. It has now passed 1500 names. Where possible the data has been validated by members and there appear to have been no major errors. The usage of the site continues to increase and the site has been used almost daily by different people over the past month. There are people from  the USA, Australia and Sweden now using the site. The number of people now registered members is 32. The site is regularly mentioned in the tribalpages top sites listing, which identifies a small number of the better designed sites out of the 450,000 they host.

I’ll aim to do a short review every six months. For next six months I’d like to get to over 100 distinct users, ie not one user looking 100 times but 100 users looking as many times as  they like. I expect there is some sort of tipping point where the site becomes more widely known and discussed, however I have absolutely no idea where that is.

To move things along as well as the tribalpages site I have now taken ownership of this wbrq02.com domain name. I also have the WBRQ02 channel on You Tube.  I would welcome any thoughts on how to make the best use of the two websites and You Tube?