Dear Barry, Obviously, you are a newcomer to our band. Unlike on some other genealogy lists, here we consider ourselves all "cousins". In the border clans, if one was adopted, married, or born into the clan, one was accepted as a cousin or relative and that's how members of the proud border clan, the Armstrongs, consider themselves on this list. If you read the welcome statement when you subscribed, you'd have seen that any form of polite discussion is allowed except for topics dealing with religion, sex, or politics. We feel that this policy works well for our group although it sometimes startles newcomers. It seems that being friendly doesn't detract from our serious genealogy work. Some of us have been Armstrong researchers on this list for many years so feel a real kinship even if we can't trace our families back to an ancestor in common. Friends and relatives like to know about and talk with each other from time to time, and that's what's happening here. Regards, Cousin Marilyn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barry Graham" <btgraham@tpg.com.au> To: <armstrong@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 11:37 PM Subject: Re: [ARMSTRONG] My off of help > > >> Hey, hey, cousin Fount, > <SNIP> > How is this message relevant to the list? > Shouldn't it be a private Email? > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ARMSTRONG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Actually Marilyn, (:>)) the welcome statement doesn't say that anymore... on one of Rootsweb updates they wiped out the welcome messages and install a generic thing.. I just never got around to updating our welcome message due to the diminishing activity on the list... Perhaps mr Graham will take his officious attitude and go over to Helen's list.. JD Marilyn Otterson wrote: > Dear Barry, > > Obviously, you are a newcomer to our band. Unlike on some other genealogy > lists, here we consider ourselves all "cousins". In the border clans, if > one was adopted, married, or born into the clan, one was accepted as a > cousin or relative and that's how members of the proud border clan, the > Armstrongs, consider themselves on this list. > > If you read the welcome statement when you subscribed, you'd have seen that > any form of polite discussion is allowed except for topics dealing with > religion, sex, or politics. We feel that this policy works well for our > group although it sometimes startles newcomers. It seems that being > friendly doesn't detract from our serious genealogy work. > > Some of us have been Armstrong researchers on this list for many years so > feel a real kinship even if we can't trace our families back to an ancestor > in common. Friends and relatives like to know about and talk with each > other from time to time, and that's what's happening here. > > Regards, > Cousin Marilyn > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Barry Graham" <btgraham@tpg.com.au> > To: <armstrong@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 11:37 PM > Subject: Re: [ARMSTRONG] My off of help > >> >>>Hey, hey, cousin Fount, >> >><SNIP> >>How is this message relevant to the list? >>Shouldn't it be a private Email? >> >>------------------------------- >>To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>ARMSTRONG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ARMSTRONG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >