Awards & Accolades
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"The Mitchell Families Online met all the requirements of our criteria, presenting a nice design, a quality and interesting content and a logical and easy navigation, which is why we are pleased to grant our Gold Award for this website. Congratulations!" Award date: 8 October 2012 Visit the award page |
"Due to the high quality of your website "Mitchell Family Online", we are delighted to be able to award you our Gold Prospective Award (rated World's Top Award), which is very difficult to win! Your score, according to our current criteria, is 7 out of 8 " Award date: 11 November 2012 Visit the award page |
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 Casey's Celtic Charm 2011 Site of the Year Award |
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"The work and compilation of information is outstanding. This is not a site easily done and (is) a very time consuming project. The content is well displayed and arranged to be easy to view in a nicely put together design. This site was put together with a lot of heart and soul mixed into it. I believe the Mitchell Family Online site is a good representative of the Casey's Celtic Charm purpose and mission statement." "I have chosen MFO: Mitchell Family Online - My decision being based on user-friendliness, an overall design that is pleasant and attractive and the use of creative structure to get the Genealogical message across. The time and effort put in as well as a true affection for the subject clearly show from all pages." "The MFO: Mitchell Family Online is perfect as far as I can judge. It is unbelievable extensive and one has to return to it again and again to see it all. What a fantastic job! I could find no faults with it." Visit the award page |
"Hi and Congratulations! Your site - Mitchell Families Online - has been accepted as a winner of JerryD's Silver Award. We were impressed with your site as a great contribution to the internet. Your site has nice graphics and wonderful navigation. Our awards are not easy to win so keep up the great work. " Award date: 16 September 2012 Visit the award page |
"I'm very pleased to announce, that your site "Mitchell Family Online" is a Gold Award winner of my "CLL Website Awards". Also, thank you very much for inviting me to evaluate your excellent site with so rich and well-designed content of genealogy, not just one family, but a wide Family Tree! This site contain several user-friendly features, including also interactive parts. Navigation is functional, relevant and exhaustive. Pages are proper-sized with high consistency. Coding (HTML & CSS) complies high standards. Backgrounds, fonts and graphics are well selected lending support to a harmonious whole. In its entirety your site is very pleasant to visit. " Award date: 19 March 2012 |
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 Otakou New Zealand Creative Design Awards |
"We are extremely proud to present your site with the Casey's Celtic Charm Gold Award. Thank-you for giving us the opportunity to review your work, the visit was most inspiring. Your effort and dedication shine throughout your pages. You are truly deserving of our highest accolades, and for making the World Wide Web a much better and nicer place for us all to visit." |
"Site is of high quality". Award is "...fairly difficult to win". ... "Many years of hard and painstaking research has resulted in a rich and diverse history of this extended family tree. Roger well deserves the recognition accorded to him with the granting of this Silver Award." ... "Superb website, well laid out, easy to navigate, masses of information that has clearly taken years, and years to collate. A real labor of love by Roger. Well done." ... "The best personal run genealogy site I have come across." |
"Awarded the Silver award on 2011-07-10, the MFO: Mitchell Family Online genealogical web site displays the dedication of many years of hard and painstaking research and the resulting rich history of the extended family tree is the worthy reward. The owner well deserves all recognitions accorded to the web site. A most relaxing site visit and one that is certainly worthy of bookmarking. Congratulations from O.N.Z.C.D.A Staff." |
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"MFO: Mitchell Family Online is an extraordinary genealogy website. The family tree goes back in history as far as 1629. You can find details of 18,521 individual people recorded, including 2,567 unique surnames making up 4,540 families." "You can browse names, people, places, documents and all kind of media like photos, videos, certificates, and more." "The website is excellently designed and meets W3C webstandards." "You can see hundreds of wonderfully illustrating historical pictures of all kind fom all around the world and videos bringing you back in time and history.You are truly deserving of our highest accolades, and for making the World Wide Web a much better and nicer place for us all to visit." "Congratulations, the website MFO: Mitchell Family Online wins Timelines Gold Award of Excellence, Timelines' Top Award." |
"Your site shows your dedication throughout. Your navigation is easy to follow and the photos are clear. The information was researched and displayed well. The long time you used to gather the content was well spent! Nice work!!! The Fun Tyme Entertainment Awards Program salutes your dedication and congratulates you on being a winner of our Gold Award." "Our awards are not easy to obtain at any level and to win our award is a great achievement. You being a winner shows that you have put the effort needed into your site and have made it an asset to the www." |
"Your site was done with an eye towards detail and researched information. The incredible amount of time it has taken you is well shown and noticed throughout your site. Your site is one of the most complete genealogy sites I have had the pleasure to view. Good job!!!" "Your site shows a high standard of quality which all site designers should strive to achieve. You have taken the time to make your site of interest to all, with an eye to detail and with an imaginitive mind. Your site surpasses our criteria in excellence". |
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"Genealogy sites take a lot of time, research and imagination to make. This time was well spent making this site. The content is on-going and interesting. The navigation brings the visitor through the site well. The pictures are well done and pertain to the content. Good job! The White Swan Awards Program congratulates you for being one of our winners of The White Swan Award of Excellence. Your site was selected as a great representation of what a quality site should be. You have put forth the best in design, content and navigation. Your site is more than deserving of our award. Our award is not easy to obtain, to win our award is a great achievement. You being a winner shows that you have put the effort needed into your site and have made it an asset to the www." |
"It has taken quite a bit of time to go through your very extensive site and even then I may have missed a few items. Your family must be very grateful for the amount of time and energy you have put into the research of the data and putting it on internet. The site is well designed and well layed out." "I was extremely impressed and you most certainly earn my award for that fantastic site. It is not just of great interest to your family, but also an added value to internet as a whole, as it will teach many other genealogists (including me!) how it is supposed to be done. Thank you for inviting me to your wonderful site!" |
(Translated from German) Your website is very engaging. You have invested a lot of time to ensure that the site is interesting and engaging. As well as creating an extensive online project, your website is very well designed and is equipped with an exquisite menu. The information content is beautifully researched and illustrated with excellent graphics. This immense work should be of great interest not only to your family, but for the majority of the entire internet. For this skillful web project, we are happy to award you the Gold Permaweb Award. This award is not easy to achieve and so it demonstrates your great achievement and your contribution to the enrichment of the internet. |
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