Hi all, I took Jana's advice and went and posted some of the OLD families of the Blackburn area of Lancashire. I didn't finish yet, but will do some more later on today. Sorry to say, even though our family came from Blackburn originally, I've not connected them to any of these. Still missing a generation or two.... Terry / Glen Rock, NJ ps. If you haven't seen the listings at GenForum, you definitely should check it out. I was astounded by the number of surnames that have forums devoted to them. ---------- > From: Jana Black <jblack@marin.k12.ca.us> > To: DEWHURST-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [DEWHURST-L] NEW GenForum bulletin board for us! > Date: Friday, October 09, 1998 2:35 AM > > Hi all, I requested that GenForum set up a bulletin board for us and > they did! If you would each go post your basic info there, it makes it > ewasy for other researchers to find us more specifically (i.e., by > actual family branch). > > The link is http://www.genforum.com/dewhurst/ > > I posted info about the mailing list and will post about my own line. > Here is part of the message I received from GenForum: > > "Please let your fellow researchers know of your addition to our list so > that they might post queries. And please feel free to post to your data > on this surname to get the ball rolling. Obviously, the more > researchers using the list, the more we > all get out of it." > > "Because each name takes space on our server, we monitor new names added > to > our list. If no one posts within 4 weeks of adding a name to GenForum, > we feel > that we must remove it to make way for other names. Please understand > that > this is just a measure we have to take to ensure that the surnames we > choose > are being used." > > Sooooo, POST! willya all? Thanks! > > Jana > >