If you're descended from the Havilands, married to a Haviland
or researching Havilands, send
me your name and I'll put you
in this list! Optionally, if you send me information I'll link
to a brief bio page. I only post what you want me to post, as
much or as little as you want. For instance I can post your picture,
and/or your Haviland lineage (1), and/or your
email address. (2) Instead
of a lineage you
could
just mention a major
Haviland patriarch
you
descend
from. If you have a web site, I can link back to it here.
Although
most of the people in this list are researching Havilands,
you don't
have
to be
a researcher.
You
don't even
have to know exactly how you connect to the major Haviland
genealogy at this site. There are some unconnected branches some
people
are working on, such as the Irish Haviland family tree, which
share the surname but are not yet proven to be the same Guernsey
descent. You are welcome here too! THE LIST
NOTES
- No birthdates of living people, including
yourself, are allowed in this area.
- All email addresses will be in GIF form, not
clickable text. This is for our protection from spammers. There
are companies that send out harvester spiders, which are really
just programs that search web sites, looking for the at-mark:
@. Since this mark is almost always indicative of an email address,
the spider lifts the text around it and stores it in a remote
database to be sold to companies that send you spam. I find
this practice reprehensible and a violation of privacy. And
it gets worse. Some pirates will use your private email address
as a reply-to when they spam thousands of other people. This
is called spoofing.
So when all these angry people get spammed with something offensive,
they think it came from you! It's an ugly practice, and almost
impossible to stop once it happens. I know, because it's happened
to me before, with a Yahoo account. So as a GIF image instead
of text, the the email addresses on my site are almost "blind"
to the spiders, and therefore much safer. (It is not entirely
safe, however. New OCR technology, or optical character recognition,
is allowing GIF images to be examined for @ mark text as well.)
You will find that Ancestry.com uses the same practice, and
they now distort the image with grain to frustrate OCR attempts.
It is also for this reason you should be particularly careful
about using your private email address at online bulleton boards,
because they are major targets for spiders. Once your private
email address is compromised, it's almost impossible to stop
spammers from using it. I use DNS email addresses at bulleton
boards, which are "fake" addresses that redirect to
real ones. That way when I start getting spammed at that address,
I simply go to the DNS and change the email address. It cuts
the spam off dead. (If you would like a DNS email address, check
out my free service for Havilands.)
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