Dear family historians, Now that summer is approaching and the disgusting weather is keeping more of us indoors, more of us are turning to their research. We have lots of new devotees to geneology, so it is perhaps time to clear up some misconceptions about the YKS Surnames List. Do bear with me. 1. The YKS Surnames List is a totally independent, entirely free, database of Yorkshire surnames and of those who are researching these names. Some names are even entered up to 20 times with the names of 20 different researchers. 2. The list does not belong to rootsweb or Genuki, except for the fact that Genuki very kindly provides the server facilities. I also owe a special thanks to the List Administrators of the several gen lists to which I post these updates although I am not personally subscribed to them. 3. To say that it is a list is perhaps a misnomer as it is not a list in the sense that it is like the gen lists. You cannot subscribe (or unsubscribe) to the database and there are no provisions whatsoever for posting queries or answering your questions. These are not my names, so please do not ask me to do lookups for you. Any questions you have should be posted on the Yorkshire gen list(s) to which you belong. 4. Most importantly, you must read the instructions for submitting surnames and follow them to the letter. This means entering all the essential information you asked for, namely a contact name and email address. This week I deleted 4 different submissions because either the contact name or the email address was not provided. This applies to both those who use the form we provide (when your ISP accepts it) or when you send me your names in a text message. That information must appear in the body of your message to ensure that all your information is correctly entered. 5. And for those who are concerned with privacy issues, all the email addresses are encoded on the index to protect you from harvesters. That is why you only see EMAIL next to a name. 6. It is up to every submitter to keep me informed of changes in email addresses. There is no form for this, you have to mail me directly. When I am informed of a bouncing email, I do a double-check and then delete every single entry with that email. This is what happened, yet again, this week. The following submitters' entries were deleted: Robert Kellett (1) bobkel@bigpond.com Sally Taylor (1) rstaylor@telusplanet.net AJL Hollis (1) AJLHollis@aol.com Richard B Gillion (25) rbgillion@aol.com (These entries were deleted because I was informed: <<< 550 rbgillion IS NOT ACCEPTING MAIL FROM THIS SENDER>>> and all my attempts to contact him at the website he provided went undeeded. Not too many but always welcome new submissions this week: BULMER KELLETT, KENNEDY PROVOST ROBINSON SPEIGHT WALKER Best regards to everyone, Magdalena -- Magdalena Gorrell Guimaraens List Administrator INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMITTING NAMES and Home Page: http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/YKSlist/ PLEASE ADDRESS ALL CORRESPONDENCE TO: ykssurnames@yahoo.com