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Old December 31st, 2005, 11:43 AM
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Default Communties formerly on CompuServe

These are web forums I know about that spun from CompuServe communities.

Studio Products (the forum here came from Artists forum on CIS)
AVSIG
Desktop Publishing Forum
The Pets Forums

And, of course, The Tapcis Forum.

Anyone know of others?

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Old January 1st, 2006, 10:36 AM
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http://www.mythical.net/ Thom Hartmann, ADD, etc.

http://www.catholic.org go.compuserve.com/catholiconline

http://www.gographics.com/ (forums are still on Compuserve)

http://www.commtalk.de/ formerly German OS/2, etc.

http://www.flefo.org/modules.php?name=Forums foreign language forum

http://www.nomissoft.com/ Simpilot, Virtual Access
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Old January 1st, 2006, 10:43 AM
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Go to http://groups.yahoo.com and search for "compuserve" and you will find others.

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Old January 11th, 2006, 08:18 AM
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http://www.wineloverspage.com/

Which is Robin Garr, from the Wine and Beer forum.
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Old January 11th, 2006, 08:54 PM
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http://www.wineloverspage.com/

Which is Robin Garr, from the Wine and Beer forum.
FWIW, Robin Garr is now the contract holder for CompuServe's Genealogy Forum. Community. Whatever.

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Old January 16th, 2006, 11:37 PM
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Is the chess forum still going? It was given living space by SimPilot, wasn't it?

FWIW, Avsig's Rob Dubner tweaked TapCis for use on the forum, which uses UBB software. TapUBB looks and acts just like TapCis, pretty much, and has a cute little perk: you can access link sites given in messages from it.

CS's GARDEN seems to be acquiring a few refugees from forums which have closed--
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Old January 17th, 2006, 10:31 AM
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Is the chess forum still going? It was given living space by SimPilot, wasn't it?
There's a forum section for chess at nomissoft but it appears to be inactive.

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Old January 18th, 2006, 09:29 AM
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FWIW, Robin Garr is now the contract holder for CompuServe's Genealogy Forum. Community. Whatever.
It appears he has also moved his wine forum back to CIS (or duplicated it, anyway). It is now called Wine Lovers Community.
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Old January 18th, 2006, 10:07 PM
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It appears he has also moved his wine forum back to CIS (or duplicated it, anyway). It is now called Wine Lovers Community.
Yes, I do believe he mentioned that he had taken over CompuServe's wine forum again. And apparently, there are a couple of my distant Loofborrow cousins among his regulars. ;-)

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nd apparently, there are a couple of my distant Loofborrow cousins among his regulars. ;-)
Ooops — you’ve lost me. Are they famous? <g>
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Old January 22nd, 2006, 12:02 AM
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Ooops — you’ve lost me. Are they famous? <g>
No, not famous, just recognizable by the name -- by whatever spelling it takes (and there are many). But so far as I am aware, all of the people of that surname in the US are descended from the same guy, a Quaker miller who arrived in New Jersey in 1685. I got a big chuckle when Robin said, in response to a message I posted on the genealogy forum about the wide variation in the spelling of the name, "Hey, I've got both a Loughborough and a Loofbourrow in my wine community, but it never occured to me until now that those were variations of the same name." You never know where one of those descendants is going to turn up.

I guess about the closest claim to fame is that there is a Loughborough Avenue in St. Louis, named for an early surveyor of that area, John M. Loughborough.

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Old January 22nd, 2006, 03:51 PM
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No, not famous, just recognizable by the name -- by whatever spelling it takes …
Thanks. Until this thread I had never run into anyone by that name, however spelled.

All descendents of one guy, huh? Like the two women half the Askenazy Jews are descended from. Or the gazillions of Americans descended from someone who came over on the Mayflower. The multiplication factors in genealogy are amazing.
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The multiplication factors in genealogy are amazing.
Indeed. In fact, there was an article somewhere within the last 5 years or so -- I think it was either in Harper's or The Atlantic, but I can't swear to that -- making the case that the way the mathematics work out, anyone who lived on earth at least some minimum number of years ago (and I'm afraid I've forgotten exactly what the time span was, but it was within the range of recorded history) is the ancestor of every living person on earth if they are the ancestor of anyone at all (that is, if they had offspring and all of the lines of descent from those offspring have not died out). And the same thing applies to more limited ranges of people who lived more recently: Anyone of European descent, they said, is a descendant of Charlemagne. (The trick, of course, is in being able to trace the particular line of descent.) And not just of Charlemagne, but of every other European who lived 1000 years ago and has living descendants.

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Thanks. Until this thread I had never run into anyone by that name, however spelled.
I hadn't either, until I came across it in the genealogical information my aunt had given my father; the name was out of my great-grandmother's family Bible. Her grandmother had been a Loofborrow. I was intrigued by the strange name, and also by the fact that it was a maternal line that had been documented when male lines had not been, and wanted to find out where it came from. I had initially guessed it was Dutch (I knew the family was from New York), but it turned out that it was English.

Odd names like that are a genealogical gift. They are like the edge pieces in a jigsaw puzzle -- there are a limited number of them, and a limited number of ways they can fit together. They help you to construct a frame into which the other pieces can be fitted.

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And they beat the heck out of the Johnsons and Joneses and Bakers in my family tree!!!
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Odd names like that are a genealogical gift. They are like the edge pieces in a jigsaw puzzle -- there are a limited number of them, and a limited number of ways they can fit together. They help you to construct a frame into which the other pieces can be fitted.
You bet!

My lineage on my mother’s side is full of Lees, one of the most prolific crowd in New England. Very hard to disentangle them, too. (I didn’t do it but one of my sisters did, and I was a sympathetic onlooker.)
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And they beat the heck out of the Johnsons and Joneses and Bakers in my family tree!!!
Believe me, Deans, Fords, and Hunts are no better!

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My lineage on my mother’s side is full of Lees, one of the most prolific crowd in New England. Very hard to disentangle them, too. (I didn’t do it but one of my sisters did, and I was a sympathetic onlooker.)
Oh -- yeah, Lees in this part of the country are a bit hard to disentangle, too! Especially when they tended to use the same names over and over and over from one generation to the next...

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I'm sure that's true. And my cousin would say the same thing of her father's side -- Williams!
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Old January 25th, 2006, 12:08 AM
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I'm sure that's true. And my cousin would say the same thing of her father's side -- Williams!
There's one Williams family in Hanover that's easy to recognize because their first two initials are always double letters. One day when an unusually large number of them had been through one of our branch offices, one of the tellers was heard to say, "I've seen every Williams today from AA to ZZ!"

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