About Notices.
Family Notices is the on-line free publishing site of Family Archives Ltd, a private NZ company.
All publishing is broken into Notice types, they all follow the same publishing/editing process and they all transfer into our Archival library after 14 days where they are permanently available for searching.
Some notices are copyright to you, the author if you wish, and all that is required is for you to complete the Author box at the bottom of such notices. Copyright is the act of asserting copyright and has no other form of registration (it is not a patent!). Copyright means that no-one is able to use your work without your permission.
Publishing Features
Your notice is protected by a password selected by you. Only you can alter the published notice, or anyone you disclose the password to.
After you have created the notice, and clicked Publish Now, the notice will appear immediately in Current Notices. Anyone who has the full name, or the family name or the region(s) selected on Email Alerts will be sent an instant email.
During the 14 days the notice is on Current Notices, the password you have selected allows you to alter the notice including adding or changing photos, text, times and dates, or to simply edit grammatical errors.
Please take heed of family objections to anything you may have published. You can delete the whole notice. In general, editing sensitively will overcome concerns. If unsure, email your notice to other family members before clicking Publish Now. If you would like an independent view, please email us.
There are however some things which are not appropriate to publish here. Please read the warnings below.
You are also able to work on the notice before you click Publish Now- there is no time limit on how long it takes you to write what you wish to publish. For example, if you are preparing a Family History, it may take you several weeks before you wish to publish.
After 14 days the notice will automatically transfer to the Archival Library.
Save
This site has automatic Save on all notices being written and their editing. Every 60 seconds what you have added will be saved. A flag will show as this process happens.
Warnings
Where a Notice contains material of an indecent, libelous or publicly objectionable nature, Family Archives Ltd reserves the absolute right to remove it from public view. Republishing the Notice minus the offensive material will require the whole process of a new notice. Where family object to the content of a notice on family grounds, Family Archives Ltd will at their sole discretion remove the notice from public view for a period of 28 days during which the objector must obtain a solicitors letter outlining the justification for their objection on that solicitors signed original letterhead (photocopies will not be accepted) and delivered by "signature required"mail to Family Archives Ltd, P.O.Box 338, Katikati, NZ. On receipt of an email from the solicitor confirming a letter is on the way, the notice will be removed from public view. On receipt of the letter, the notice will be permanently removed.
Family Archives Ltd strongly recommends that Authors do not venture into sensitive family matters. In general, family "secrets" relating to family members recently deceased or still alive and their immediate offspring are not items suitable for publication on this site (or anywhere else, for that matter).
Some considerable sensitivity should be shown towards including details of children who may have been adopted out at birth. Where birth parents and offspring have not been re-united, inclusion may not be appropriate.
Publishing Hints.
There is nothing at all difficult about publishing a notice or history. Its really just simply typing it in. However, there are one or two things you need to keep in mind. For a start, the text you type in will always be continuous, even if you click on "enter"(its the program we use). So the following Hints are to help you make your publication look the way you want it to.
#1. To start a new line (as opposed to letting our program do it as each line gets full), you must type in <br> exactly like that at the end of the line where you want the break, and the line will "break" at that point and restart on the immediate next line. This is especially necessary if you are typing poetry for example, or reported speech.
If you just want a new paragraph break, all you need to do is double click on Enter.
#2. To create a Bold heading (or make some text bold), press Ctrl and B at the same time. This will then show on your screen as <B></B> and your cursor should be blinking in the middle. If it is not, move it there. Then simply type in the words you want to be bold.
Now, this is very important- when you have completed the words you want bold- you must move the cursor to the right of </B>. Until that is done, everything you carry on typing will stay bold.
It is possible to go back to some text you have already typed and make it bold. If you want to do this, select the words you want bold by running your cursor over the text you want bold while holding the click down (this will make the selected text black), press Ctrl and B which will put <B> and </B> around the words, and then move the cursor back to where you want to continue typing.
If this is a heading and you want it on a seperate line, enter it as in #1 above.
#3. To create a footnote, press Ctrl and N at the same time. This will show as <FOOTNOTE_1> <FOOTNOTE1>on your screen with your cursor blinking in the middle. Type in your footnote, and remember to move your cursor to the right of the second <FOOTNOTE> when you have finished the footnote to return you to the text you are typing. Each Footnote is numbered consecutively automatically.
To view your footnotes when you are working on the text, you will find them in numerical order at the bottom of all you have typed. They can be deleted (the numbers automatically readjust), or edited.
If later, you wish to insert another footnote anywhere in your text, click your cursor at the point you want it and simply repeat #3. The numbers will automatically adjust.