Christi, After reading your letter, I had to email you. I think the Barton List is great. But I disagree with you telling people to use the new LDS web page. I have been trying to contact them to get off their program. I too have a web page with my family history listed. The LDS indexed it and put it on this page. I now get twenty to thirty hits from people who state that they got there information from the LDS web page. All LDS gives them is hits on last names and not on first names, states or dates. I get hits wanting to know if I am their ancestor, All they have is a last name. Sorry for the complaining but if you know how to contact them please let me know. Ask the other members if they are having the same problem. Thank You Paul Barton. ----- Original Message ----- From: Christi Calvert Brogan <brogan@idworld.net> To: <BARTON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 1999 3:55 AM Subject: [BARTON-L] State of the list, new items, etc. (FROM THE LISTOWNER: PLEASE READ) > Hi folks, > > Well, just wanted to write and thank everyone for joining the Barton list! > We are over 250 strong today (264 to be exact) and I'm thrilled to have all > of you. Since there are so many of us, I suggest we all try posting our > lines again to see if anyone else out there may connect. I'll start it off > by posting mine a little later today. > > Rootsweb has recently introduced a new set of web pages to help make life > easier on those who use their sites. They are called the "Surname Resource" > pages and the Barton one is located at: > http://resources.rootsweb.com/surnames/b/a/Barton/ I invite everyone to > check the page out as it is a great place to jump off from in search of > Barton information. The page includes search engines for the master surname > list, transcription projects like the ship transcribers guild, Genweb > archives and other records, and an archive search engine for this list. > > For those who haven't heard, the LDS church has made part of their > genealogical databases internet capable. Many many people started their > research at the local LDS library, and now you can do it from your own home. > To log on to the LDS site, go to http://www.familysearch.org > > Also, I am in the process of updating the web pages for the list and welcome > your comments, suggestions, links and/or queries to add. If you haven't > visited the page, please do at > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~cbrogan/barton.html If there is something > there you don't like, now is the time to speak up! :) One of the big > changes that will be taking place is that I will be moving the guestbook > from an outside host to a local site. This will cut down on lag time > between. Also, if there are those out there on list who either don't know > how or haven't the time but would like to have their lines of research > posted to the internet, please contact me and I'll be glad to help. The > more we can share with others, the more others will share with us :) > > Again, thank all of you for being members of the Barton mailing list, and > good luck in your searches! > > Christi Calvert Brogan > Proud Rootsweb Donor > Visit our list pages at http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~cbrogan > Visit our personal homepage at http://users.idworld.net/brogan > > > ==== BARTON Mailing List ==== > Please do not send spam warnings, chain letters, attachements and/or html or rich text formatted email to the list. If in questions, please address the listowner at brogan@idworld.net > >