Hi Listers Thanks to the sage advice of member Nivard Ovington I now have access to the list controls. I have reset certain things so you may notice a few changes: The subject line has been returned to starting with the prefix “Carib-L” I am preparing another welcome message which will contain some url’s to assist newbies on their path. Spam protection is being actively tended by yours truly to see if we can tighten it up abit. A few Reminders to All:::::::-) 1.When replying to messages, please take a moment to edit the body of previous message’s text included in your reply. There are times when people have been hitting reply with “include text of previous message” selected in their e-mail program and by the time the thread is 5 posts old we have thousands of lines of text going back and forth. Taking a moment to edit it will make it all easier to read 2. When starting a thread….compose a “subject” line which will make it clear what the target is. This will make the information much more useful when someone is searching in the archives. 3. And this is for those on the list for less than a year: Since 1997 many members of this list have been building internet sites most of which contain finding aids for Caribbean research, some are independent and some affiliated with RootsWeb. Take a little time to become familiar with them. Some like mine are out of date, but still contain a lot of helpful information. Some are just plain fantastic. Study abit of history too. Become familiar with the time and place important to your people. I will be preparing a short list of these sites which I will post occasionally and will also be located “Carib-L Resources Page” on the CaribGenWeb island page “Historic Antigua and Barbuda” which is being renovated to suit a broader interest. Oddly Carib-L has always been described as a general list for the region but has had a predominant concentration of researchers interested in the British West Indies(loosely). Because islands shifted politically and people moved quite abit a general list is always useful but if your interests lie with Spanish or French islands you will need to expand your list memberships to reflect that specialty. Finally, anyone who has a URL to recommend for the Carib-L Resources Page http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~atgwgw/caribgensources/resourcescaribgen.h tml Please submit this to me with “Resources” in the Subject line and I’ll do my best. That’s it. Good Hunting ChrisCod ___________________________________________ C. M. Codrington Researching Codrington and related families on Barbados, Antigua, Barbuda and St. Kitt's 1640-1750 Eastern Jamaica 1738-1872 ____________________________________________________________________ _____ I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 27 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Try SPAMfighter <http://www.spamfighter.com/len> for free now!

Hi I am just checking to see what the footer will look like Cod -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of C.M. Codrington Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 1:53 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Carib-L Listowner News: changes made Hi Listers Thanks to the sage advice of member Nivard Ovington I now have access to the list controls. I have reset certain things so you may notice a few changes: The subject line has been returned to starting with the prefix “Carib-L” I am preparing another welcome message which will contain some url’s to assist newbies on their path. Spam protection is being actively tended by yours truly to see if we can tighten it up abit. A few Reminders to All:::::::-) 1.When replying to messages, please take a moment to edit the body of previous message’s text included in your reply. There are times when people have been hitting reply with “include text of previous message” selected in their e-mail program and by the time the thread is 5 posts old we have thousands of lines of text going back and forth. Taking a moment to edit it will make it all easier to read 2. When starting a thread….compose a “subject” line which will make it clear what the target is. This will make the information much more useful when someone is searching in the archives. 3. And this is for those on the list for less than a year: Since 1997 many members of this list have been building internet sites most of which contain finding aids for Caribbean research, some are independent and some affiliated with RootsWeb. Take a little time to become familiar with them. Some like mine are out of date, but still contain a lot of helpful information. Some are just plain fantastic. Study abit of history too. Become familiar with the time and place important to your people. I will be preparing a short list of these sites which I will post occasionally and will also be located “Carib-L Resources Page” on the CaribGenWeb island page “Historic Antigua and Barbuda” which is being renovated to suit a broader interest. Oddly Carib-L has always been described as a general list for the region but has had a predominant concentration of researchers interested in the British West Indies(loosely). Because islands shifted politically and people moved quite abit a general list is always useful but if your interests lie with Spanish or French islands you will need to expand your list memberships to reflect that specialty. Finally, anyone who has a URL to recommend for the Carib-L Resources Page http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/˜atgwgw/caribgensources/resourcescaribgen.h tml Please submit this to me with “Resources” in the Subject line and I’ll do my best. That’s it. Good Hunting ChrisCod ___________________________________________ C. M. Codrington Researching Codrington and related families on Barbados, Antigua, Barbuda and St. Kitt's 1640-1750 Eastern Jamaica 1738-1872 ____________________________________________________________________ _____ I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 27 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Try SPAMfighter <http://www.spamfighter.com/len> for free now! ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _____ I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 27 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Try SPAMfighter <http://www.spamfighter.com/len> for free now!