Dear Jan, Firstly, Ray, I apologise if I should not have sent this over the list..... I am one of those , as you say, many people to do look ups for many listers on many lists, and I never consider any time that is spent looking up names for people as wasted time. Yes, sometimes the information that I send may be the same as some others have sent, but I have found in the past that just sometimes, little items are picked up by different people, perhaps different spelling etc... , found with lateral thinking, or even, sometimes, just a guess..... I myself was one of those people who years ago, put my tiny little request on the list for lost rellies, I was astounded by the absolutely wonderful people on the lists that even think to give me the time of day, not knowing me, send what they could to help me out. Yes, I did get lots of similar replies, but how wonderful these listers are.... I myself would find it very difficult not to answer a plea for help, even if it wasnt " my day to look up" what if we all had the notion not to answer listers just because we thought "someone else will do it" ...... it isnt "my day" Jan, if these listers are happy to help when they can, work permitting, family permitting, even at three o'clock in the morning when they can't sleep, I will always be very happy to receive any emails, not matter how similar the content. What you are asking is that the list be "vetted" for info......... me, I would always be happy to get replies from anyone....anytime..... Once again, apologies to Ray and any other listers ....... Gaylene ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jan" <janealogy@westnet.com.au> To: <AUS-MELBOURNE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 8:33 PM Subject: [AUS-MELB] REGARDING LOOKUPS - STUART/KIRKPATRICK > Hello everyone, > > Firstly, let me thank very much the three members of this list who have > been very generous in looking up the details for me of the > STUART/KIRKPATRICK request I made. > > Secondly, what struck me immediately was that these three people had done > exactly the same job, when the efforts and generosity of one person would > have been sufficient. > So. I have a suggestion that perhaps Ray (List Admin.) may wish to > comment on, as perhaps he would need to oversee/organise this. > > What if all of you with BDM cd's (or any other resource) work out a day of > the week that each of you would be prepared to do a lookup for the rest of > us, and any request that comes in on that particular day, then that person > does the lookup. The results of the lookup still to be sent to the list, > but I just think it would be a much fairer system to share the load, than > to have several people spending their own time to find out the same > information as each other. Hope I've made sense! > > What do you think? > Jan. > > > ==== AUS-MELBOURNE Mailing List ==== > ==================================================== > Virus warnings are not to be sent to the List! > > ============================== > New! Family Tree Maker 2005. Build your tree and search for your ancestors > at the same time. Share your tree with family and friends. Learn more: > http://landing.ancestry.com/familytreemaker/2005/tour.aspx?sourceid=14599&targetid=5429 >