Dear Mr Fillhard Get a life! You evidently are too serious to read and to get the point...Let's try again....."The reasons are only important to you all in that it....will hopefully help you all to find a brick wall that someone else hadn't posted. You can participate or not as you like, but I hope you will so I can try to get to know a little something about where and what time frame you might be searching in." As for your assessment..."why not do it on a site that was made for that purpose and not clutter up all of our mail boxes with information that has no relevance to serious genealogy"....I have been doing genealogy for the last 34 years, but evidently you feel you have a monopoly on "serious genealogy". Not. You do not speak for me nor I suspect for the rest of the list. The choice is yours, participate or not, but in the interim please don't clutter up the list with your complaints. Linda ----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry Fillhard" <fillhard@sbcglobal.net> To: <DECKER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2004 8:29 PM Subject: [DECKER] Virtual Dinner Party > Although Virtual dinner parties, cook books, and sharing fantasies may > have a place on the internet, I see no place for it at a site that is > supposed be dedicated to genealogy. If you want to share your recipes and > daydreams why not do it on a site that was made for that purpose and not > clutter up all of our mail boxes with information that has no relevance to > serious genealogy. > > Larry > *************** > From time to time I like to do different things on a list. The reasons > are only important to you all in that it helps to pick the list up from > time to time from a slump and will hopefully help you all to find a brick > wall that someone else hadn't posted. Another reason is only purely > administrative and not something you all need concern yourself with. You > can participate or not as you like, but I hope you will so I can try to get > to know a little something about where and what time frame you might be > searching in. > > The virtual dinner party is something that has been somewhat successfull in > the past on various others of my lists. For this, you pick a Decker > ancestor or maybe 2, that you were it possible, you would love to sit down > and spend the evening with, asking questions, having a conversation with > about their day to day life, etc. > > Send the name to the list along with a few of the probing questions that > you would like the answers to. > > The menu for this party is bring your own dish...if you have an old family > recipe (preferably a Decker one, but not necessary for the cause) you can > also share that recipe if you would like. > > Please be sure to change the subject line to reflect what is in the > email...you can shorten Virtual Dinner Party to VDP so that we know the > origin and still get a subject line in. > > Lainee > Decker List Admin > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.613 / Virus Database: 392 - Release Date: 3/4/2004 > > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 >