Thanks John, I knew I could count on hearing from you. Thanks for the suggestions. I will setup a new group. No, not that chilly here - sun is out about 80-81 I guess. I just turned my fan on. (:-))--. Oh, I guess I can find e-mail address of family 4 members on www.davidsongenes.org.. Anyone have a suggestions for our groups name? Any suggestions of members? - Laroice ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Lisle" <davidson@tqsi.com> To: <davidson@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 1:27 PM Subject: Re: [DAVIDSON] Davidson Family 4 Let's all meet as friends on Facebook > Laroice, > > I think that is an excellent idea to use Facebook. > > What you want to want to do is create a Face Book group. Real > simple... setup whatever rules and then people can leave posts and > articles and photos. > > I think a FaceBook group is better than a blog or a yahoo like group > because you will find that sharing pictures will be an important > aspect of the group. > > I would not make it a closed group as you want to be able to find new > members of the group. A lot of the help on that will come by writing > a strong intro. Please feel free to link to our DNA site as > www.davidsongenes.org as it will be moving shortly and the individual > page links will be changing. > > Some folks might be hesitant about setting up an account on Facebook. > It does not cost anything, and I am finding it a great tool to find > people when I am researching a family. > > I would suggest that you send out a message to each of the Family 4 > members individually as not all subscribe to this list. > > I assume it is not too chilly in Hawaii... This week the mercury is > freezing solid in New Hampshire... ;-) > > john. > > > > At 04:43 PM 1/6/2010, Laroice Davidson wrote: >>Hi Everyone and Happy New Year to All, >>I am Laroice Davidson, Family 4, Kit #88694. I was thinking it would >>be nice if all the members of Family 4 could get to know each other >>better and then I thought of Facebook. >>Would that not be a great place for us all to meet as friends and >>share pictures, stories and advances in our research? >>I don't mean it as a place or way isolate us from others on the >>Davidson list, of course that would be dumb, but rather just another >>way for us to get to know each other. >>Facebook is really easy to get on. I would like to hear from any of >>you that are interested. Also was wondering if anyone on Facebook >>knows of a way to create a separate account just for our group. I'm >>sure there are some folks already on Facebook sharing with other >>family and friends. >> >>Anyway if you are related in anyway to Davidson family 4 or just >>interested in working with family 4 and staying touch please post >>your reply here. >> >>If anyone has or knows of another forum where we could kind of form >>a Family 4 group please speak out. >> >>Thanks, >> >>Laroice Davidson, Honolulu > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > DAVIDSON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >