At 03:24 PM 9/5/2006, you wrote: >I'm having trouble grasping how such a reply would be appropriate if in >response to a query on a specific individual or family. I think I >know the type >of lookups you are referring to and I think they are a bit misdirected--no >one reads those lengthy posts and the data just gets "lost." They >also tend to >be posted on locality boards and ramble on about data for other counties on >a given surname. I'd just as leave not have them -- even as much as I love >seeing data posted to a board. > >Joan > Joan, Yes, these are on locality boards. One poster posts the lengthy ones about one specific Surname, but not as responses to queries. The other poster is replying to queries. For example, the original query might want obits for a couple. The volunteer not only finds the obits, but also the SSDI, cemetery, newspaper death notices (and anything else she can find) about the couple, but also birth, marriage, death, cemetery, etc. info on the children of the couple. I can't imagine them classified as anything but Lookup. Jackie -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.11.7/437 - Release Date: 9/4/2006

Jackie, On multi-data posts I use biography. Biography is a "collection of facts" about a person. Think of the post of multi-data as if all those pieces of info were put into a narrative form, like in County Biographies (e.g. Beers). Thinking of the post as the forerunner of a narrative writing may help see multi-data posts as more a biography classification that any other class. Judy On 9/5/06, Jackie Wilson Goddard <jaws64@comlinkusa.net> wrote: > > At 03:24 PM 9/5/2006, you wrote: > > >I'm having trouble grasping how such a reply would be appropriate if in > >response to a query on a specific individual or family. I think I > >know the type > >of lookups you are referring to and I think they are a bit > misdirected--no > >one reads those lengthy posts and the data just gets "lost." They > >also tend to > >be posted on locality boards and ramble on about data for other > counties on > >a given surname. I'd just as leave not have them -- even as much as > I love > >seeing data posted to a board. > > > >Joan > > > > Joan, > > Yes, these are on locality boards. One poster posts the lengthy ones > about one specific Surname, but not as responses to queries. The > other poster is replying to queries. For example, the original query > might want obits for a couple. The volunteer not only finds the > obits, but also the SSDI, cemetery, newspaper death notices (and > anything else she can find) about the couple, but also birth, > marriage, death, cemetery, etc. info on the children of the > couple. I can't imagine them classified as anything but Lookup. > > Jackie > > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.11.7/437 - Release Date: 9/4/2006 > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BOARDS-ADMINS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- ~PRIMARY NAMES: ANTHONY, BAKER, FLOWERS, LANE, SEPTER~ Washington Co PA free Websites: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~florian http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~florian County Coordinator for http://www.rootsweb.com/~pawashin/ Researchers of Washington County PA, join our map: http://www.frappr.com/researchingwashingtoncopa