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Posted by Mark Goodge on August 30, 2008, 10:20 am
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On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 14:31:03 +0100, Safalra (Stephen Morley) put
finger to keyboard and typed:
>On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 13:22:37 +0100, Mark Goodge wrote:
>> One of my websites, http://www.britishsurnames.co.uk, has had a
>> massive increase in traffic this morning. [...]
>>
>> My guess, therefore, is that either my site in particular, or the use
>> of the web for surname research in general, has been featured in the
>> media today - either a Saturday newspaper, or on breakfast TV this
>> morning, and this has prompted a lot of people to head for their
>> computers and start searching. But it's not the newspaper I read, and
>> I wasn't out of bed early enough to be watching breakfast TV :-)
>>
>> So, can anyone out there shed some light on it? Has anyone seen a
>> feature on surname or genealogy research in the media this morning? If
>> so, what was it, and what paper/channel?
>>
>> (For the benefit of non-UK readers of aww, this is all UK traffic, so
>> it must have been the UK media. I apologise for asking a regional
>> question in a global newsgroup, but I'm there's a sizeable British
>> contingent here and my hope is that at least one person has seen what
>> I've missed!)
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>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7588968.stm
Hmm. Could be that, I suppose. Especially since the site linked from
that report is either painfully slow or not working at all.
Mark
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