PAGE 6C. OUR HALL OF FRIENDSHIP

The Extended Craxford Family Genealogy Magazine has now been on line for five years. In that time it has developed and expanded far beyond its original conception. Many people have helped, and continue to help, the project flourish in many different ways. We feel the time is right for us to recognise these, our friends, by presenting them with this token of friendship and gratitude. The awards are of two types. The first is for those friends who have developed a long-term and ongoing association with us; the second recognises a single significant event of recognition or aid. Our awards will be announced twice a year at Christmas time and at the end of March.

The decision to make an award is in the purview of my associate editors and me. It cannot be applied for and is not available to family members. We do not expect anything from our friend in return. Display is not a priority and a link back to our site is not required. Lasting friendships evolve with bonds so strong that it often seems as though we have 'really known' each other forever. Our friends are listed below alphabetically with links to their own web sites. Do please pay them a visit.

The photograph (sepia-ised) is one which appears on the web site taken nearly 25 years ago showing my father (who died in 2001) and me with my infant son (who graduates from Med school this year!!). - Alan D Craxford

BIRTHDAY HONOURS APRIL 2010

VERY SPECIAL FAMILY FRIENDS

Very Special Family Friend award

In this category we are honoured and delighted to recognise friends who have travelled with us on our journey; giving unstinting help and support whenever it has been needed, offering impartial advice and bolstering our sense of purpose and direction. You are the oil which keeps our engine running.

Alan J Clarke Northants-Familytree.net - Northamptonshire, England

Citation: I would like to make this presentation to you in recognition of your encyclopaedic collection of reference material regarding the country of Northamptonshire, its history and inhabitants and beyond. It is also an expression of our thanks for your willingness to reach into the smallest recesses of local genealogical knowledge; a capacity which has helped us break down more than one family history stone wall in our years of association. - April 2010

Brian McFadyen Software Development for TNG Genealogy Software - Burlington, Ontario, Canada

Citation: That Darrin Lythgoe's TNG software is pre-eminent in its class is self-evident to genealogy web builders and browsers alike. However no package is ever static or complete. I would like to make this presentation to you as an expression of our thanks for your unstinting work in developing solutions and customisations for the TNG community and your willingness to guide us end users in their implementation. The advent of the Mod Manager makes both new installation and upgrade simple and quick. - April 2010

SPECIAL FAMILY FRIENDS

Special Family Friend award

In this category we are honoured and delighted to recognise friends who have, in a significant, unexpected and notable way, promoted or furthered the aims and achievements of our site. Without you our mission would have been so much the poorer.

Keith Bellamy Pictorial Walks in Northamptonshire. U.K.

- April 2010

Lionel A. Bouchon and Didier Grau Prospective Award Program. Marseille, France

- April 2010

Mitch Gariador The Gariador / Satterfield Family Genealogy, Chino, California, USA

- April 2010

Jenny Maass The Moon Awards Program. Linz, Austria

- April 2010

NEW YEAR HONOURS 2010

VERY SPECIAL FAMILY FRIENDS

Barbara Boyle The University of Dundee Alumni On-line Community - Dundee, Scotland

Citation: This token is to say an unreserved thank you for the your support and encouragement in the setting up of our TARTAN pages section. The archive material, practical help and links to the University have been instrumental in fostering the aims of '69 Club Yearbook and the Alumni who belong to it. - December 2009

Elisabeth Jordan Gretton Local History Society - Northamptonshire, England

Citation: We would like to present you with this token to thank you for the help you have given us in our explorations of Gretton and its environs (the birthplace of the Craxford dynasty) both in cyberspace and on the ground. You have always been available to research a query on local knowledge or history no matter how trivial or obscure it may have seemed. - December 2009

Darrin Lythgoe TNG: The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding - Sandy, Utah, USA

Citation: I would like to make this presentation of one of our first batch of awards to say an unreserved thank you for your tremendous program and your unwavering and selfless help, advice and encouragement that you give to users, experts and tyros alike. I have perhaps taken my implementation of TNG in unexpected directions but the fact that my dabblings have been tolerated is a remarkable testimony to a remarkable product. - December 2009

Ken Roy Our Acadian, French Canadian and Maine Ancestors USA

Citation: I am taking this opportunity to say an unreserved thank you firstly for letting me try out and run riot with your template switching mechanism and secondly for all the help, advice and moral support when things have seemingly gone wrong. The switching has extended TNG into the magazine I always hoped for and a package which brings frequent praise and admiration. - December 2009

Rhonda Serong O.N.Z.C.D.A. - New Zealand

Citation: I would like to make a point of recognition of the unstinting and impartial advice and help that you have given me over these last several months. Likewise I have come to look on you as a friend. It has been a long road in developing the web site taking Darrin Lythgoe's original amazing genealogy engine and developing and molding it in directions unexpected. Then there was the project to convert my naive initial dabblings in markup to xhtml (my first pass on page 1 through the w3c validation process reported 364 errors of one sort or another!) You have been a rock to firm and maintain my resolve in this latest venture. - December 2009

Jane Smith Cottingham History - Northamptonshire, England

Citation: We would like to take this opportunity to say an unreserved thank you for all your help in our explorations of Cottingham and its environs (our branch's site of origin) and in particular the background to St Mary Magdalene Church and to the tragic tale of Thomas Claypole. Without that help the site would be less complete. - December 2009

SPECIAL FAMILY FRIENDS

Franz Boigner Phönix Award Program. Vienna Austria

- December 2009

Friedrich Hornischer Timelines Awards. Germany

- December 2009

Ric at Vintage Kin Vintage Kin Genealogical Design Studio. Australia

- December 2009

Daniel L Wheeler The Dove Award Team. Tridelphia, West Virginia, USA

- December 2009

To Page 6A: Our Awards Index

To Page 6B: Our Commendations, Publications and Citations

Last updated: April 18th 2010

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