I did (ask myself, that is) and couldn't decide, so I think we should vote. And if you think I did wrong you can put my name on the 'hit list', I don't care. As a wise person once said (not sure which wise one), "if you don't know where you from, how you going to know where you going"? I think we did pretty good for 26 hours without a guard. Now laugh, thats suppose to be funny! In order to make this a geneology related post, is anybody related to the EVANS,TURNER,DAVIS,GROOVER, people who was in Jefferson County, Alabama at any time. delilah evans born Hillman Hospital (free charity clinic) poor then, poor now A Coal Miner's Daughter ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nancy DeVore Williams" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 10:37 PM Subject: [ALJEFFER] Message from the list administrator | Whew! | That's what I get for going 26 hours without checking this list. OUCH! | | I just have a few comments. | I am very proud of the people on this list and 95% of the emails that | were sent in the last 24 hours were within the general guidelines that | we have always followed with this list. With the exception of the | postings of one person, less than 5% (or so) of the posts weren't on | topic, however, quite a few of the postings were pretty borderline. | | There are currently 265 people subscribed to this list. This time | yesterday there were 272. Many people enjoyed the conversations on the | last 24 hours and many that didn't simply hit delete. However, six | people just quietly (and one loudly) unsubscribed and several more | emailed me privately asking me to get us back on topic. | | So please remember, if you have a thank you for someone specific, a | question for more clarification on something that specifically relates | to you,or just personal reminiscing please do NOT send those mails to | the list, send them directly to the one or two people that they are | directed at. Ask yourself, of the 265 people subscribed to this list | can I honestly say that more that two or three want to hear what I have | to say? If not, please email the interested parties separately from the | list. And while I'm at it, please don't send emails with comments like | "me too", "thanks", etc. | | I want you to all feel like this is your list, but to do that we all | have to remember that this is a very divergent group. Some of us may | enjoy reminiscing about the recent past, but many of us never | experienced it. On the other hand, ALL of us are interested in the | genealogy of the people from Jefferson Co, AL and that is where the | emphasis should be and what we should be focusing on. BTW, if someone | actually wants to start an ALJEFFER-chat mailist, I think that would be | great and I'm all for it. I am afraid I don't have the time right now | to do it myself, but I will gladly support and help anyone who wants to | start on. Email me (privately) <grin> if you are interested in hosting | such a list. | | And now, I'd like to turn the floor back over to what I know to be one | of the finest groups of genealogists anywhere. And I sincerely mean | that. I too subscribe to many lists, but I can honestly say that none | of them have as warm, thoughtful and supportive group of genealogists as | ALJEFFER. | Sincerely | Nancy [email protected] | Oops. While I was writing this email another person just unsubscribed. | Better get back to good old fashioned digging up bones or I'm going to | all alone here, like I was when I started this thing <grin>.. | | | ------------------------------- | To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message