I wanted to send each of you a personal hello as your new mailing list administrator. My name is Michelle Rasberry and I am also the coordinator of the Columbia County website here on Rootsweb. I hope to have some very interesting topics discussed in the mailing list and invite each of you to submit to the list as often as you like. You need not restrict your submissions to queries only. Sometimes a wealth of information can be obtained by also including some of the history as well. As the new administrator, I have a lot of work to do. I am going to get a webpage up for this mailing list as soon as time allows with information on subscribing and unsubscribing for those of us who sometimes forget how. (Notice I included myself in that.) Currently I have numerous links for Columbia County as well as for Arkansas in my bookmarks, however that doesn't help any of you until I get them on a website. If anyone has any links of interest that pertain to Columbia County I invite you to email me personally and I will include them when I get the webpage up and running. Please be patient because I have to do the webpage as time allows. Although I know that most of you have been on this list longer than I have, I have included the guidelines in this email just to refresh everyone. Please restrict your messages to regular text as messages in all caps tend to remind one of screaming. Also do not send messages in HTML format because not all subscribers can read them. If you need information on how to turn this feature off please email me personally. If you are researching a family member, please include as much information as possible, i.e. birth and death dates and places if known as well as children or spouses. Sometimes another user maybe researching a child and not the parent and this may help them along. Please no bashing other list members, especially new subscribers, for mistakes or for things they did not know. We were all new at this at one time. Please address all replies to the mailing list instead of to the individual. That way we can all benefit from each other's knowledge. Please do not forward spam, virus alerts or attachments to the mailing list as it tends to cause problems for the list and other subscribers. For any problems you may have with the mailing list, please email me personally and I will attend to it as soon as possible. Another site of interest is the Columbia County Website. Some of you on the list have already been to the website and I appreciate your interest. However for those of you who have not visited the website, here is the URL. http://www.rootsweb.com/~arcolumb Thanks so much. Michelle Rasberry [email protected] Administrator ARCOLUMB Mailing List __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com