This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/xY.2ADI/280.1 Message Board Post: Williard Franklin Robinson, b. 7 Jan 1903 in East Hampton, Ct in a section known as Skinnerville. He was the son of Frank Robinson and Mary Bidwell Johnson. Family records show that his father Frank Robinson was born in 1873 in Marlborough, CT. Frank was an older brother of my greatgrandmother Adella Imogene Robinson. Would love to share more family history information.

Listers, These "message board postings" get deleted by me automatically if they don't have a surname of interest to me in the subject line. I bet I'm not the only one. This latest one said "Seeking ancestors" Well, aren't we all? Lee ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2002 5:25 PM Subject: [CTMID] Re: Seeking ancestors > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/xY.2ADI/280.1 > > Message Board Post: > > Williard Franklin Robinson, b. 7 Jan 1903 in East Hampton, Ct in a section known as Skinnerville. He was the son of Frank Robinson and Mary Bidwell Johnson. Family records show that his father Frank Robinson was born in 1873 in Marlborough, CT. Frank was an older brother of my greatgrandmother Adella Imogene Robinson. Would love to share more family history information. > > > > ==== CTMIDDLE Mailing List ==== > Visit the Godfrey Memorial Library Website > http://www.godfrey.org > Middletown, Middlesex Co., CT > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >

I've never heard that including a family name in the subject line was a hard-and-fast rule on this or any other list. Clearly, there are many interests other than one's own ancestors or kinfolk -- the history of the Middletown First Church, migration patterns, Old Riverside Burying Ground (I've posted on that), livestock earmarks, city directories, extinct businesses, etc. etc. I always scan the body of a post unless the date is the 1900s. My WETMORE line left Midltn circa 1715 -- the Rev. James/3 (Thomas/1, Izrahiah/2) -- but there were WETMORE, WHITMORE and STOW cousins there well into and perhaps through the 1800s. There may even be HALL cousins there today -- plus descendants in the female line whose surnames I can't even guess. My only real peeve is subscribers to the digest who fail to change the subject line to match the subject line of the digest item they're replying to -- "[CTMID] Re: CTMIDDLE-D Digest V02 #11" tells me absolutely NOTHING about what might be in the post -- and then blithely go on to reply *without* quoting the item. It's like listening to one end of a phone call. It takes a minute or less to fix this. 1. Hit "Reply." 2. Find the item of interest, including its subject line, and cut it. 3. Delete the remainder in the body of the digest by Ctrl-A and Delete. 4. Paste in the item. 5. Copy and paste the item subject line into the message subject line. 6. THEN write the reply at the top of the message body. My apologies to those who already know how to do this. Yrs aye, Warren Wetmore ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lee Morse" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2002 5:21 PM Subject: [CTMID] Useless Subject Lines | Listers, | These "message board postings" get deleted by me automatically if they don't | have a surname of interest to me in the subject line. I bet I'm not the | only one. This latest one said "Seeking ancestors" | | Well, aren't we all? | | Lee | ----- Original Message ----- | From: <[email protected]> | To: <[email protected]> | Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2002 5:25 PM | Subject: [CTMID] Re: Seeking ancestors | | | > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. | > | > Classification: Query | > | > Message Board URL: | > | > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/xY.2ADI/280.1 | > | > Message Board Post: | > | > Williard Franklin Robinson, b. 7 Jan 1903 in East Hampton, Ct in a | section known as Skinnerville. He was the son of Frank Robinson and Mary | Bidwell Johnson. Family records show that his father Frank Robinson was | born in 1873 in Marlborough, CT. Frank was an older brother of my | greatgrandmother Adella Imogene Robinson. Would love to share more family | history information. | > | > | > | > ==== CTMIDDLE Mailing List ==== | > Visit the Godfrey Memorial Library Website | > http://www.godfrey.org | > Middletown, Middlesex Co., CT | > | > ============================== | > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, | go to: | > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 | > | > | | | ==== CTMIDDLE Mailing List ==== | For anyone who missed them, Robert Squire has posted images of | Middlesex County section of John Warner Barber's Connecticut Historical Collections at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ctimages/ | | ============================== | To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: | http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 | |