Hello Josephine I am so sorry to hear that you have been so badly treated when all you want to do is help people. I know you have helped me in the past and it has been much appreciated. Please do not lose heart you are a blessing to so many. I'm sorry to hear about your computer problems too, that must be very frustrating. Happy New Year to you Josephine. Best wishes, Lin In a message dated 04/01/2014 12:24:22 GMT Standard Time, jojeremiah@dsl.pipex.com writes: Hi Listers, In 2000, I corresponded with someone a number of times about their family history. Back then there wasn't as much information available as there is now, but I helped as much as I could. Subsequently, my correspondent put a message on rootsweb naming past family members and asking for any information about them. This went into the rootsweb archives and is available for anyone to see now or the future. By 2011, new family records had become available so I thought of my correspondent and found three marriages, two births and two baptisms, which I sent off plus details of a site where further information could be found on 19th-century family members. I did not receive a reply at the time, but now nearly three years later I have received one. It turns out that my correspondent, rather than being pleased with the new information, was annoyed with me for 'checking' on these family members and had decided not to contact me any more. So I am in a dilemma, now, concerning other requests for family history information which I receive almost daily, off list, from people who have found my posts in the rootsweb archives. I now feel I don't want to carry on helping people, but it's not in my nature to be dismissive when someone, often a complete stranger, asks for help. I have the added problem that my main computer which is used for research and e-mail has broken down, yet again, after only a year's use. I'm currently using an old and very noisy computer, which is also very slow and liable to break down, too. It's a dilemma I'll have to work out for myself, I know, but in the meantime I may not be helping out, as much as I formerly did. I think that I need to take a break as this has caused me much distress. Josephine ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BRISTOL_AND_SOMERSET-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message