This page originally held contact details for Barnsley FHS members and was designed in the days when only a minority of members provided us with an email address. Over the years, more and more members provided, or changed, their email address, and it became increasingly difficult to keep the information displayed here to the standard of accuracy we would wish to see.
During the same period, it became apparent that email addresses displayed directly on a web page were an easy target for automated 'address harvesting' programs. These were used by 'spammers' leading to our members receiving large amounts of unwanted email. Similar problems occurred with our web-based surname interest pages, and as result, we took the decision to withdraw all these pages and replace them with a database system which would enable our members to maintain and update their own Surname Interest and contact details in a reserved area of the web site, which would, however, be viewable by all our visitors.
Barnsley FHS members who wish to make use of the service should contact the webmaster who will issue them with the neccessary password information to use the service.
Tom Horne,Webmaster