These redirections may add advertisments on an initial splash screen when you use them.
Initially this consisted of our family member home pages. Our Parish pages came next and then some pages to explain where we lived (the Leigh pages), then some family history. Initially the site could be found at :-
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Peaks/2928/index.html
Then I set up a 'mirror' of the site at :-
http://millennium.fortunecity.com/celesteville/457
These sites added adverts to the pages (Geocities in a separate window, Fortune city as a 'banner').
Later I took out a life-time membership with OrangeNet and could use their webspace without adverts or additional cost. OrangeNet went out of business but their supplier, Onet kept on the account.
http://home.onet.co.uk/~davidwelch/index.htm
The Leigh pages expanded to include a larger and larger number of photographs taking up more and more space and so I kept only one instance of these pages on the Onet site and kept the other pages mirrored on Geocities and FortuneCity.
Then I moved my ISP to Cable Internet and mirrored the site there to (not including the Leigh pages which were only on Onet).
http://wkweb5.cableinet.co.uk/David.Welch/index.htm
When I added the photographic segment of the site, initially this used the same photographs as the Leigh segment and so it to was set up on Onet and not duplicated on the other three sites.
Later Cable Internet renamed and became Blueyonder
http://www.davidwelch.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk
After some time Onet withdrew the free web space and wanted to charge, at this point I decided to consolidate the whole site on Blueyonder which was proving stable and had the advantage that by then I had a broardband cable connection to the ISP and webserver.
At this point I dropped the GeoCities and FortuneCity mirrors as well as the Onet site.
When the site reached the maximum free space on Blueyonder I again split the site, with the Leigh and Church pages being hosted on my friend Graeme Dunne's web space
http://www.graemedunne.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/index.htm
This seemed only fair as Graeme is the Parish Priest for Sacred Heart and these pages included the Parish web site.
The current configuration is to have the top of the site on both ISPs, with the Genealogy and Photopages on davidwelch.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk and the Sacred Heart Parish and Leigh pages on graeme.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk.
I then started using "webmaster" at the "FindHere.com" redirections. Since then FindHere.com has gone bust so this address to has fallen by the wayside. Now I do not provide an e-mail address as programs strip out addresses from websites for SPAM mailing lists.
I can be reached by leaving messages in the Guestbook. I get notified by e-mail each time an entry is placed in a guest book.
I don't "do" java-script, but a friend of mine does so theJava Scripting on this site is by Stuart Martin
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For some time I had been adding links to web rings. In 2000 I started the photographic segment of the site and it occured to me that this segment, when I finally got around to scanning in my best photgraphs could, possibly, make money.
Initially I had added links to a couple of other photgraphic sites that sell either photo-prints or access to private gallaries, these links were sponsored in that if someone follows and link and then spends money I get a commision. But no cheques arrived in the post and in December 2002 I dropped these links had joined me up for SPAM messages.
However, in defining who I was I had to mention my family. Which lead in turn to describing the Church we attend, the place we live in and our ancestors. It just sort of grew!
So if you want to add some text about Leigh, mail it to me, for instance pub reviews. If you have a site with content about Leigh, let me know and I will consider a link from our pages. I have even been know to add extra photographs of requested buildings.
I would be especially interested in linking to pages with family trees of related families or recieving information on anyone in the family trees I already have documented (to save me all the hard work!).