You may have been keeping your own archives for your program, which you’d like to include in this Historic Record for our breed. Or you may be a custodian or have records of Breed Archives that you would like to transfer to a public space, but daunted by the task or don’t have the time to manage a space.
Well, I had the public space and the means to give it a format that is workable for research. So I’ve repurposed it from being just my personal TCUK Ancestors records to a place where all Past/Present Breeders can store their information too. The good thing is this method needs very little intervention or management, so it’s got longevity.
It’s fairly simple to submit your information as long as you keep to the following format and method:
HOW TO CREATE AN ENTRY? You submit it via email to PBResearch
OPTION 1A) NEW CAT ENTRY. We need to have each as a separate entry on these records to keep the service meaningful. If you are submitting historical scanned photos or digital photos with more than one cat featuring, please make a separate email for each topic that features in the picture. REMEMBER, ONLY 1 CAT, CATTERY OR BREEDER PER EMAIL
HOW TO DRAFT THE EMAIL
- EMAIL SUBJECT The email subject takes this format eg: “Historic Reference Photo - the cat's full name here” or “Who’s Who - Cattery Name Here - Breeder Name(s) Here”
- ADD CAT/CATTERY or BREEDER AD PHOTO(S), be sure to Trim/Tidy edges of your photos before including them.
- ADD LINES INFO/PHOTO. If you have these details, add scanned or screenshots of the bloodlines, please be sure to tidy by trimming the picture before including.
- ADDITIONAL CAT/CATTERY or BREEDER INFO If you have any other information you may feel is relevant, you can handwrite it and take a photo, or type it into a word processor then take a screenshot and include that picture. Http links are also ok to add too. Or just you I out as an email.
- IDENTIFY WHICH CAT/PERSON If more than one cat/person features in a group picture please write “FEATURED the position within the composition of the photo” (e.g., “FEATURED FRONT CENTRE”). You will need to repeat that step for each cat featured IF you think they deserve an entry in their own right on this research database (and there are no entries already for this cat). DO NOT WRITE ABOUT ALL IN ONE EMAIL. Note, if they are non-active registered and never have been, then there’s no reason to include them.
OPTION 2) EXTRA INFO FOR EXISTING RECORDS. If you have more photos or information on a cat, cattery or breeder that already has an entry in this place, then please follow the above format as if they were a completely new entry. I will amalgamate everything new you’ve provided from the Draft Post to the original entry, rather than multiple entries per cat.
KEY POINTS TO REMEMBER
- JUST POST THE INFO YOU WANT PUBLISHED NOTHING ELSE. DO NOT include any conversational chat, signatures or sign-offs. Only include words you want published. if we need more info we’ll be in touch. Remember, you’re not emailing me, you’re emailing directly as a post to the server.
- CORRECT US IF INFO IS WRONG TELL US about a post such as a corrections to facts, spelling mistakes, then email me directly clicking this link state the post id or attach the post id and tell me what’s incorrect and give me the correction.
ANOTHER WAY TO REPORT INACCURACIES/ERRORS If you see something wrong, you can also use the REPORT AN ERROR Contact Form located in the left sidebar.
WHAT TO EXPECT AFTER SUBMITTING WORK TO BLOGGER
The email is submitted directly to the server, which automatically converts it to a post but in Draft Status for review. This enables me to size and centre pictures, run spell checks, and add a post label “Historic Reference” and tags so it can be searched for and it can be picked up under the correct TAB Breed Historic Reference tab. Breeder Who’s Who or a n other tab.
These checks are manual not AI or automated BEFORE it’s published, do submissions won’t appear straight away. The manual step also stops spam mails or offensive content directly publishing and tainting this reference resource. CORRECT FORMAT WILL BE PUBLISHED QUICKER. Providing the guidelines have been followed, it will not need any further work to it and can be immediately published. Delays will happen if further formatting needs doing, so please don’t include zip folders or access links to Dropbox or other permission-only spaces, etc., as these will not work.
FINAL THOUGHTS, keep up with the latest updates/inclusions and see when yours/others your works published, you can utilise the subscribe via email in the sidebar. You will be notified by email every time an ancestor or breeder/cattery is added in a newsletter-type format. Alternatively for your work type a unique keyword used in your post that would identify it. If it’s been actioned it will display if it’s still queued in review it won’t.
