Hi there Janice ! Welcome aboard the Blax Fam Hist train ! I'm Geoff Blaxall and you can read all about me and my family at my personal page < http://members.tripod.co.uk/Blaxall/index.html > My direct e-mail is geofflewinblax@cwcom.net However, please read the following which our Cousin Carlton sent out some time ago. If you register, It will enable you to monitor traffic passing between cousins and so pick up snippets on the way. Also, of course, anything you send to BLAXALL-L will automatically be copied to us all, so (theoretically) nothing should fall through (sorry ! thru) the hole in the blanket. Say ! Did you know there's a John Blaxall in the Washington area ? I will copy this via BLAXALL-L so that he sees it. I will also copy direct to you a long screed I already sent to BLAXALL-L regarding a John Blaxall and his family in the area around Bermondsey, Southwark, Rotherhithe, St Saviour, St George's, St Olave area of south east London. I'm pretty sure they are yours. If so, it means Carlton can connect you up right back to a marriage between John Blaxall and Agnes (Anne) Wythe in Yoxford, East Suffolk 2nd July 1621. I'll repeat that date in case you got it corrupt. 2nd July 1621. Wow !!! It also would mean that my great grandfather was brother to your great grandfather's grandfather (I think ! ), their father being Frederick Blaxall who married Mary Cole around 1807. Cheers for now Geoff Carlton Blaxill wrote: > (If you are no longer interested in Blaxall genealogy, my apologies, > and please ignore this e-mail.) > > To all Blaxall researchers. > > Dear Cousins, > > I am e-mailing you all because at some point over the last four > years you have got in touch via the Blaxall / Blaxill / Blaxell / > Blaxcell / Blaxhall family website. > > Over this time some 39 Blaxall's and variants let me know they > were interested in Blaxall genealogy. > > Just for the record:- > > 15 Blaxall's > 13 Blaxill's > 5 Blaxell's > 4 Blaxhall's > 2 Blaxcell's > > Just recently there has been a great deal of activity and > correspondence between certain sections of the family, and this > has been opening up to an ever widening audience of Blaxall > researchers. > > The problem has been, that it is sometimes rather difficult to > understand exactly who is related to whom and what the primary > interests of each researcher are. Also it has not been possible to > 'withdraw from being copied on e-mails when one feels the > information is getting too much. > > I have therefore set up a mailing list so that all the Blaxall's (and > variants) can keep up to date with current research. > > The 'mechanics' of the list are quite simple. > > All you have to do is the following:- > > You can subscribe to the list in mail mode by sending a message > to BLAXALL-L-request@rootsweb.com that contains the word > > subscribe > > (in the body of the text, leaving the subject blank) and nothing else. > > If you would prefer digest mode (this is where a number of e-mails > are bundled together and sent every two days or so), you can send > the command instead to BLAXALL-D-request@rootsweb.com. > again only containing the word > > subscribe > > in the body of the text (no subject). > > In either case you should receive a 'Welcome' message to advise > you are 'subscribed' to the list shortly afterwards when you next > retrieve your mails. > > Should you wish to leave the list then to unsubscribe, > you should send the command "unsubscribe" to > > BLAXALL-L-request@rootsweb.com (if in mail mode) or > BLAXALL-D-request@rootsweb.com (if in digest mode.) > > in the same way in the body of a message with nothing else. > > To switch from one mode to the other, you should unsubscribe > from one and then subscribe to the other. > > This stage gets you on (or off) the mailing list. > > Next, if you want to send messages to both BLAXALL-L and > BLAXALL-D, messages should be sent to > > BLAXALL-L@rootsweb.com. in just the same way as you send any > other e-mail, (this time with a suitable subject line). > > Messages sent by you will be sent to all the other Blaxall's (and > variants) who have also subscribed to the list. > > The beauty of this is that it is now up to you as to whether you > want to receive mails or not, and you don't need to include a huge > CC: list to get it to everybody. Please remember though that this is > effectively a 'public' list, and so if you have private information then > please send it directly to who-ever. You may also want to 'CC:' a > particular person if your post is of particular relevance to that > person, or you think they are no longer on the list. > > Maybe if all those that are still interested could 'subscribe' to the > list, and as a first post to it, send in a paragraph or two describing > yourself, your direct family line, and you particular areas of interest. > I will then collate these introductions, and send them out at regular > intervals or when a new subscriber joins the list so that they can > understand where we all fit into the 'big tree. > > For the next few weeks its probably a good idea to keep the normal > cc: lists in operation, I will keep you all updated as to who is > subscribed to the list. > > Hope it all works !!!! > > Hope to see you on the list. > > Best Regards. > > Carlton.