Don't work too hard. We love ya cuz! Janice "B" >From: Christopher Brooks <[email protected]> >Reply-To: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Subject: [BNE] Sabbatical (Tributaries) announcement >Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2002 11:08:26 -0400 > >On Sun, 7 Apr 2002 09:46:35 -0400, Christopher Brooks wrote: > >:(That last sentence looks a little ungrammatical, but it comes >:from the heart.) > >Boy, I'm glad that I've learned to be semi-discreet in my offlist >utterances, because I've recently developed the unnerving habit of >sending private replies to the list as a whole. :-) > >================================== > >I'm going to be taking a brief sabbatical from the list. I have a >long overdue issue of Tributaries to get out the door. Since I'm >unemployed at the moment and the landlord is showing the house three >times a week, now is the time to make lemonade from lemons. > >As a rule I avoid plugging Tributaries on this list, since I request >a modest fee from Trib subscribers to help underwrite the costs of >researching, producing and distributing it. RootsWeb, which hosts >this mailing list, was, in contrast, founded on the premise of free >access, which I wholeheartedly support. I was a proud and >enthusiastic RootsWeb contributor during the time when RootsWeb was >attempting to survive on its own. (It's since been acquired by the >publicly-traded corporate behemoth Ancestry.com.) > >If you're new to the list, please understand that you do NOT have to >send money or subscribe to Tributaries to avail yourself of my help >or that of anyone else who's subscribed here. The publication is >independent of this list, and will stay that way. Non-subscribers do >not receive second-class treatment or less assistance via this list >in any way, and never will. But many folks who subscribe here have >only a modest interest in the Brooks surname -- perhaps because a >solitary Brooks spouse married into their Veeblefester line 4 or 5 >generations back -- and will be quite satisfied with finding their >Brooks ancestral line, and then moving on. For them, the list is >enough, and that's eminently sensible. On the other hand, for those >who have a strong Brooks connection, or who want to read more of my >scribblings or more in depth about these families as a whole, there's >Tributaries. You can read more about it, and download the sole issue >to date as a sample, at > http://www.tributaries.org > >You also may want to bookmark this web page for several reasons. >(1) It replaces my previous Trib page on RootsWeb's Freepages server. >The address will not change, even when cable modem service arrives >here next month and I change ISPs again. You can always reach me >through the web page's Email Me link. (2) The "publication" page now >at this address will soon be replaced by a generic home page, and >supplemented by data pages and links as I begin to upload portions of >my data to the web. The first five generations of William Brooks of >Springfield -- the feature subject of the upcoming issue, along with >the Baptist Timothys (father and son) of early West Jersey Province >-- will be uploaded first, to accompany release of the issue. Within >a year or two this site will house a Brooks Families of New England >mega-site which any one of you can search at your convenience 24/7. > >Today the boys (hardly boys -- one's 30 and one's 27), their ladies, >and baby Isaiah are coming over for a Sunday family dinner. We've >scheduled it precisely at the time when the landlord has scheduled >another showing of the house, so that the intruders will be properly >disconcerted. :-) Brooks uber alles! I guess that's my statement that >family rates ahead of greed on the Values Scale of life. Tonight I'll >plow through as much as I can in the Inbox. As of tomorrow morning >I'm going into semi-seclusion for two weeks. I'll be holding queries >and the like until my return, although I'll continue to monitor the >list for administrative and subscription issues and problems and get >involved as needed. > >As the monkey said after losing his tail to a passing freight on the >railroad track, "It won't be much longer." :-) > >Chris > > >==== BROOKS-NE Mailing List ==== >To unsub, send ONLY the word UNSUBSCRIBE to > [email protected] >or [email protected] > _________________________________________________________________ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com