I agree with this and almost must add that there are those who are willing to take information from other family researchers, but who are too selfish to share any information they may have.

I also must put in my two cents worth...just recently I made my first contact overseas with a very distant relative and I just happened to have what he was looking for. I in turn asked for information regarding the immediate family of the gentleman that connected us and he was quick to stop writing....hmmm, lessons we learn. It is no wonder that "we" run into people that are hesitant to share. Now that I have said that I will probly get an e-mail within the next couple days with the information I asked for... MMMMMmmmm! Crow is good! But then by the same token I have ran into people who have gone out of their way to transcribe stuff that obviously took some time and were gracious enough to share with me. In the course of our research we will all run into "Lurkers" who would rather bottom feed off of other people's hard work and contribute nothing in return, but all in all I think the good definetly outweighs the bad. Best to all and Happy Ancestor Hunting! Chadd Rose mailto: tuckman5@intrepid.net ***************************************** THE ELUSIVE ANCESTOR I went searching for an ancestor. I cannot find him still. He moved around from place to place and did not leave a will. He married where a courthouse burned. He mended all his fences. He avoided any man who came to take the U.S. Census. He always kept his luggage packed, this man who had no fame. And every 20 years or so, this rascal changed his name. His parents came from Europe. They should be upon some list of passengers to U.S.A., but somehow they got missed. And no one else in this world is searching for this man. So, I play geneasolitaire to find him if I can. I'm told he's buried in a plot, with tombstone he was blessed; but the weather took engraving, and some vandals took the rest. He died before the county clerks decided to keep records. No Family Bible has emerged, in spite of all my efforts. To top it off this ancestor, who caused me many groans, Just to give me one more pain, betrothed a girl named JONES. ----- Original Message ----- From: <Clouddancing111@aol.com> To: <BROWN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 10:16 PM Subject: Re: [BROWN] Sharing Information I agree with this and almost must add that there are those who are willing to take information from other family researchers, but who are too selfish to share any information they may have. ==== BROWN Mailing List ==== contact list manager at judjack@rocketmail.com ============================== Search ALL of RootsWeb's mailing lists in real time. RootsWeb's Personalized Mailing Lists: http://pml.rootsweb.com/

And then there are people like me-- who really don't have any information to share because they don't have any idea who the parents or any of the siblings are ; and are just hoping someone else will have them on their family tree. I've been searching for 25 years, and have yet to find a descendant of Henry Brown even though he had 12 children and I always list their names in my queries. Clouddancing111@aol.com wrote: > I agree with this and almost must add that there are those who are willing to > take information from other family researchers, but who are too selfish to > share any information they may have. > > ==== BROWN Mailing List ==== > contact list manager at judjack@rocketmail.com > > ============================== > Search ALL of RootsWeb's mailing lists in real time. > RootsWeb's Personalized Mailing Lists: > http://pml.rootsweb.com/