When I get into your Web Page, I cannot get out. Everything freezes and I have to shut down. Know why? Marilynn ---------- > From: Cassie Elam <CELAM@jw.com> > To: ELAM-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [ELAM-ROOTS-L] Roll call info for new subscribers > Date: Wednesday, February 10, 1999 2:07 PM > > Howdy cousins! I hope everyone's new > year has gotten off to a good start. We > have had quite a few new members join > the list since we last did a roll call, so I > thought I'd take a moment to explain to > them what we've done in the past. > > We have found it helpful to have > everyone post their Elam lineage so > that we can all see who might be > directly related to us and/or working on > the same brick walls. There's no need > to put together anything really > elaborate. By way of example, the > following is my line: > > Cassie A. Elam > Thomas Jefferson Elam, Jr. > Thomas Jefferson Elam, Sr. > William Barrett Elam, Sr. > Thomas Jefferson Elam > William Barrett Elam > Jesse Elam > William Elam > James Elam > Gilbert Elam III > Gilbert Elam, Jr. > Gilbert Elam, Sr./Ann > Robert Elam (through Ann) > Thomas Elam > > You can include as much information > and do it in any format that you like. > Your participation certainly isn't > mandatory, but it's a good way to make > some contacts. It also helps me so that > I know to whom I can refer people if > they ask me a question to which I don't > know the answer (I'm working toward > omniscience, but haven't had a lot of > time to devote to it lately). > > One quick note about my web page. I > had been saving all of the Elam-Roots > digests and making them accessible > from an archive that I maintained. > That has gotten to be too much work, > so what I'm going to do is change the > link to take you to the Rootsweb search > engine. What you can do to search > previous issues of Elam-Roots (or ANY > other list sponsored by Rootsweb) is go > to > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl where you will be > prompted to enter the name of the > mailing list you want to search. If you > want to search this list, just type in > Elam-Roots-L (don't type it in all caps). > > If you want to search other mailing list > archives, you can access the main > Rootsweb list by going to > http://www.rootsweb.com/~maillist/ > > Once you've typed in the list name you > want to search, you will be taken to > another page where you can type in > your query and tell it what year's > archive you want it to search. It may > sound confusing to as you're reading > this, but it's really very easy once you > actually sit down and do it. > > Good luck with your research! > > Cassie A. Elam > celam@jw.com > The Elam Family Research Page > (www.geocities.com/heartland/prairie/6831/)