Hello A*s ... I've found an interesting web site in New Zealand concerning scams: http://www.consumer-ministry.govt.nz/scams/scamwatch_prize_and_lottery.h tml http://www.consumer-ministry.govt.nz/scams/scamwatch_prize_and_lottery_l ist.html The first URL explains the scams listed at the second URL. I've received e-mails concerning some of the 'unbelievable offers' mentioned. I delete and bounce these through MailWasher before they ever enter my computer. Sadly, I know a few people who've ignored the adage, "if it seems too good to be true ..." You might want to check it out. Have a good week, clemi

Hi I am on the CLARKE list and this came this morning. the Jane Armstrong mention, may belong to one of you. Edie ----- Original Message ----- From: <acroc61541@aol.com> To: <CLARKE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2003 3:47 PM Subject: [Clarke-Clark] Daniel and Jane Armstrong Clarke of Ireland > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/mBJ.2ACEB/1316 > > Message Board Post: > > Am looking for parents of Daniel Clarke who married Jane Armstrong; and parents of Jane Armstrong. They immigrated to the US from Antrim Co., Ireland in 1865. Their children were: William Clarke, who I understand remained in Ireland; Sophia, who settled in NY; Georgina who married Arthur J. Murry, who was born in NY; and Alice Elizabeth, who was born in Albany, NY in 1876. Alice went to nursing school in Providence, RI, and in 1900 was boarding there in Providence; her mother, Jane, was living with her daughter, Georgina, and son-in-law, A.J. Murry in Washington Co., Narragansett District, R.I. Alice Clarke married Arthur Curtis Scott, and later moved to Texas. Does anyone have any information on this Clarke family - from where in Antrim Co., Ireland did they come; any other relatives in Ireland; their port of entry; etc? > > > ==== CLARKE Mailing List ==== > Message Board > Clarke > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=surnames.clarke > List Manager's address CLARKE-admin@rootsweb.com >

Hi everyone, just wanted to tell you of the Bush Fires here in Australia, in particular the bushfires in our Capital territory which is Canberra, known as the ACT. 388 houses have been totally destroyed, but fortunately at this stage, there are only 2 deaths. Those two deaths are devastating to the families who have lost their loved ones, but overall it is a miracle there haven't been more with that many houses destroyed. We have bushfire alerts all over with our hot summer and little rain, so lots of fuel for bushfires. Trouble is they are often lit by mindless people. Take Care Edie

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: ARMSTRONG PERUSSE Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/kQB.2ACIB/2567 Message Board Post: Seeking information on Warren, his siblings and Parents, Joyce and Warren. His grandmother Mary (or Albina) Perusse was my aunt. I have lost track of that side of the family and seek current information on his Aunts Janet and Priscilla and uncles Joe, Robert, and George.

Church Gossip Sarah, the church gossip and self-appointed supervisor of the church's morals, kept sticking her nose into other people's business. Several residents were unappreciative of her activities but feared her enough to maintain their silence. Sarah made a mistake, however, when she accused George, a new member, of being an alcoholic after she saw his pickup truck parked in front of the town's only bar one afternoon. Sarah commented to George and others that everyone seeing it there would know that he was an alcoholic    George, a man of few words, stared at her for a moment and just walked away saying nothing.  Later that evening, George quietly parked his pickup truck in front of Sarah's house and left it there all night.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/kQB.2ACIB/2566 Message Board Post: I'm looking for any information on Edward H. Armstrong, born in Rhode Island sometime between 1861 and 1865. His father was born in MA and his mother in NH. In the 1920 census he resided in Branford, New Haven county, Connecticut. He was married to Mary, born abt 1890 in New Brunswick, Canada to parents born in same province. Their daughter, Rose, was born abt 1905 in Rhode Island.

Could be that this person is trying to get some individual addresses for some advertising campaign Pat. He asks that you respond to his message. He has found a list address and sent out the message to the list as a whole but by responsing individually he sent s up an address list to send adverts of what ever he is selling. this is just a theory but that is the vibes I was getting as I have never heard of this person on the list. Another theory is he may have by mistake put the wrong address in. Edie ----- Original Message ----- From: <PTatom@aol.com> To: <ARMSTRONG-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 8:36 AM Subject: Re: [ARMSTRONG-L] Your Order No. 6863632 > In a message dated 1/13/03 10:06:44 AM Central Standard Time, > gdv25@bellsouth.net writes: > > > > I did not authorize you to bill my credit card for your order # 6863632. > > Apparently you have not processed the order and billed it since it doesn't > > show on my billing. PLEASE DO NOT BILL ME FOR THIS > > Date you show on order # id 1/10/2003.My name is GEORGE VAGEN and I did not > > authorize this order. My phone number is 901 683 3432. Received your e mail > > on 1/11. Your phone doesn't work this morning and I cannot reach you. > > > > > > Can anyone on the list explain this? I've received a couple of these and > at a lost to reply. > > Pat Tatom >

Barbara we are terribly sorry to learn of your loss. Sincerely, John D BCofer612@aol.com wrote: >John, I've also gotten this letter twice: tonight, and about two or three >weeks ago. I haven't answered it, and don't think I will. > >As long as I'm writing you, and as long as this is such a super list, I >guess I'll tell you all that my sister, Janet, my only sibling, died last >Thursday, about an hour or so before I got there (she lived in Maine). My >niece had called me the day before, and I tried my very best to get there >before she died, but I didn't make it in time. She never regained >conscienceness after the stroke, so I guess it didn't matter to her, but I >really wanted to see her agaIn before she died. She'd been sick for a long >time, and it really is a release for her, and knowing that helps, but it >still hurts like the dickens... > >I didn't even have time to write and ask this great group of A*s to pray for >her... > >Barb in MO > > > >

John, I've also gotten this letter twice: tonight, and about two or three weeks ago. I haven't answered it, and don't think I will. As long as I'm writing you, and as long as this is such a super list, I guess I'll tell you all that my sister, Janet, my only sibling, died last Thursday, about an hour or so before I got there (she lived in Maine). My niece had called me the day before, and I tried my very best to get there before she died, but I didn't make it in time. She never regained conscienceness after the stroke, so I guess it didn't matter to her, but I really wanted to see her agaIn before she died. She'd been sick for a long time, and it really is a release for her, and knowing that helps, but it still hurts like the dickens... I didn't even have time to write and ask this great group of A*s to pray for her... Barb in MO

Pat, I know you from the Armstrong list. I've gotten this same letter twice now, and I have no idea what it is. I'm not about to answer it, though. Do you know of others who've gotten it? Weird...! Barbara in MO

Thank you my wonderful cousins for your replies. It seems I as well as George was having a bad day. I didn't recognize the name. Heres hoping he got everything straighten out. Pat Tatom

Dear List - This sounds a lot like a scam that someone posing as an AOL rep used, suggesting I had won a PRIZE - but to get the prize the requirement was to fill in my address, e-mail address, password, and credit card number. Asking for my password was a clue that AOL was not involved.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Armstrong, Denton Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/kQB.2ACIB/1628.1 Message Board Post: Your Samuel Armstrong was a brother of my g grandmother Elizabeth Armstrong Adkins. I have the obit for Jane Nihiser Armstrong that my g grandmother had. She died Feb 14th 1922 . According to the obit she married Samuel Armstrong Dec 24, 1874 and had five children. Eva and Ira, who were both deceased at the time of her death, Laura, Maggie, and Elva. In 1922 they lived in Fall River, Kansas. Samuel was still living at the time of her death. If you would like a copy of this obit, I would be happy to send you one. Do you have any information on any related Armstrongs?

Subject: New Words Some new some not so new. NEW WORDS FOR 2003 - Essential additions for the workplace vocabulary: BLAMESTORMING: Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible. SEAGULL MANAGER: A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything, and then leaves. ASSMOSIS: The process by which some people seem to absorb success and advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard. KISSUPOLOGY: The study of ASSMOSIS...... SALMON DAY: The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed and die in the end. CUBE FARM: An office filled with cubicles. PRAIRIE DOGGING: When someone yells or drops something loudly in a cube farm, and people's heads pop up over the walls to see what's going on. MOUSE POTATO: The on-line, wired generation's answer to the couch potato. SITCOMs: Single Income, Two Children, oppressive Mortgage. What Yuppies turn into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids. STARTER MARRIAGE: A short-lived first marriage that ends in divorce with no kids, no property and no regrets. STRESS PUPPY: A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiny. SWIPEOUT: An ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless because the magnetic strip is worn away from extensive use. XEROX SUBSIDY: Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one's workplace. IRRITAINMENT: Entertainment and media spectacles that are annoying but you find yourself unable to stop watching them. The O. J. trials were a prime example. Bill Clinton's Grand Jury testimony is another. PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE: The fine art of whacking the sh*t out of an electronic device to get it to work again (AKA Han Soloing). VULCAN NERVE PINCH: The taxing hand position required to reach all the appropriate keys for certain commands. For instance, the arm reboot for Mac II computer involves simultaneously pressing the Control Key, the Command Key, the Return Key, and the Power On key. For Windows it's Ctrl, Alt, Delete simultaneously. ADMINISPHERE: The rarefied organizational layer beginning just above the rank and file. Decisions that fall from the adminisphere are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve. 404: Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error message "404 Not Found," meaning that the requested document could not be located. GENERICA: Features of the American landscape that are exactly the same no matter where one is, such as fast food joints, strip malls, subdivisions. OHNOSECOND: That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you've just made a BIG mistake.

I bet I know what happened. George got a Klez infected message. One variant of it takes a message at random and sends it out to all the addresses it can find and it spoofs the To: address. It probably used armstrong-l@rootsweb.com as the To: address. I would guess since George uses outlook express, he is probably infected with the virus now. Gene At 03:37 PM 1/13/03, John D. Armstrong wrote: >Pat, > I believe George intended to send this email some where else, and just mis addressed it... >it doesn't pertain to the Armstrong - List in any way, unless someone out there on the list has some sort of commercial operation on the side and George got the two mixed up.... > I've advised George that he has evidently mis-addressed his email.. hopefully he'll figure it out and straighten it out..! > I can relate to George's frustration.. Nothing upsets me more than some fly by night outfit attempting to charge my credit card for something I didn't order, or didn't want... George show's considerably more restraint in his language and format than what I'd ordinarily use..!! (:>)) >Regards >John D. Armstrong >part time Administrator > > > >PTatom@aol.com wrote: > >>In a message dated 1/13/03 10:06:44 AM Central Standard Time, gdv25@bellsouth.net writes: >> >> >> >> >>>I did not authorize you to bill my credit card for your order # 6863632. Apparently you have not processed the order and billed it since it doesn't show on my billing. PLEASE DO NOT BILL ME FOR THIS >>>Date you show on order # id 1/10/2003.My name is GEORGE VAGEN and I did not authorize this order. My phone number is 901 683 3432. Received your e mail on 1/11. Your phone doesn't work this morning and I cannot reach you. >>> >>> >>> >> >> Can anyone on the list explain this? I've received a couple of these and at a lost to reply. >> Pat Tatom >> >> >> >

In a message dated 1/13/03 10:06:44 AM Central Standard Time, gdv25@bellsouth.net writes: > I did not authorize you to bill my credit card for your order # 6863632. > Apparently you have not processed the order and billed it since it doesn't > show on my billing. PLEASE DO NOT BILL ME FOR THIS > Date you show on order # id 1/10/2003.My name is GEORGE VAGEN and I did not > authorize this order. My phone number is 901 683 3432. Received your e mail > on 1/11. Your phone doesn't work this morning and I cannot reach you. > > Can anyone on the list explain this? I've received a couple of these and at a lost to reply. Pat Tatom

Pat, I believe George intended to send this email some where else, and just mis addressed it... it doesn't pertain to the Armstrong - List in any way, unless someone out there on the list has some sort of commercial operation on the side and George got the two mixed up.... I've advised George that he has evidently mis-addressed his email.. hopefully he'll figure it out and straighten it out..! I can relate to George's frustration.. Nothing upsets me more than some fly by night outfit attempting to charge my credit card for something I didn't order, or didn't want... George show's considerably more restraint in his language and format than what I'd ordinarily use..!! (:>)) Regards John D. Armstrong part time Administrator PTatom@aol.com wrote: >In a message dated 1/13/03 10:06:44 AM Central Standard Time, >gdv25@bellsouth.net writes: > > > > >>I did not authorize you to bill my credit card for your order # 6863632. >>Apparently you have not processed the order and billed it since it doesn't >>show on my billing. PLEASE DO NOT BILL ME FOR THIS >>Date you show on order # id 1/10/2003.My name is GEORGE VAGEN and I did not >>authorize this order. My phone number is 901 683 3432. Received your e mail >>on 1/11. Your phone doesn't work this morning and I cannot reach you. >> >> >> >> > > Can anyone on the list explain this? I've received a couple of these and >at a lost to reply. > > Pat Tatom > > > >

I did not authorize you to bill my credit card for your order # 6863632. Apparently you have not processed the order and billed it since it doesn't show on my billing. PLEASE DO NOT BILL ME FOR THIS Date you show on order # id 1/10/2003.My name is GEORGE VAGEN and I did not authorize this order. My phone number is 901 683 3432. Received your e mail on 1/11. Your phone doesn't work this morning and I cannot reach you. George Vagen 1552 Delmont Rd, Memphis TN 38117 6710 Phone 901 683 3432 PLEASE ACKNOWLEDGE THIS E MAIL THANKS

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kQB.2ACIB/2565 Message Board Post: Looking for information on ancestors of Everard Garth Armstrong. I have no idea of where my father was born, but think it was possibly in coastal Louisiana in the early 1930's. He had a twin sister, Charlotte, also brother Eugene (Gene) and his twin sister, Florene (two sets of fraternal twins). Sent to live in a presbyterian children's home in SC at young age. I've never heard of there being any further contact with their Armstrong family since that time.