Hello, I have recently sent out a letter to a lot of lists I feel that if we are all going to try to help each other in research then we should all have the same information. I have been recieving a number of letters that have asked me to look someone up I will take all those letters into consideration and in two days when i send this big gedcom out to those people who have at least offered some support by giving a date or two are those who will recieve the gedcom. You may not think that this is fair but read the letter at the bottm of the page and you will see why i feel this way about the people who offered no support at all! Now on another note let me make clear to everybody one thing If you send me your gedcom i will add it in to this tree that i making it is called the "Cascading Family Tree" It has, As we speak, 54,147 individuals in it. And in two days i will send it to every person that has either gave me a ged com file or that has wrote to me telling me information to add to this family file. So think about what i am saying and reflect on how you react and make sure you read the letter at the bottom of the page it is written to one of the lists about the last letter I sent out! You should keep that thought in mind! Here is the letter that was written to another list about my first letter that had sent out: "You know I never could understand all this. Why the secrets?? Why the selfish?? Sounds like alot of spoiled kids. "Me first, me first." I don't have much Jones info at this time or I would gladly send it. I'm on several other list and we have no trouble exchanging. For every little thing I have sent, I have been GREATLY rewarded. I think nothing of sending all I have. Why are we doing this? If not to help others and learn more ourselves. I can see y'all now when you get a new piece of info. "oh, let me hide this. It might make someone's day, but I'm not going to let go of it," I bet y'all are sure fun to live with."

You know, I am really offended by the hatefullness of the letters being sent! Some of us just do this as a HOBBY! I work 12 hours a day three days a week. I have been researching my family off and on for several months when I have spare time. I send out emails every now and then asking if anyone has any information on my family. (This would be the FORBES! Not the Jones's. That's why I am on the Forbes list. Hint!) If they don't fine, if they do great. But it is really unfair of you Duckbutta and the anonymous letter writter to be so judgemental just because we don't either have the time or want to send you all of our information. I am certainly not going to send you all of my stuff just so that hopefully you will send me a gedcom with a bunch of random names that don't pertain to my family. I don't have a lot of time to do the research that I want to do as it is, then to have to sit down and sort through a gedcom file that may or may not have any names that might be related to mine. I would rather spend that time looking through solid fact based files, thank you very much. So thanks very much for wasting our time with your hateful letters, this has really helped my researching. (HA!) Now if you think you have something on my Forbes line that would help me I would be grateful for the info. As I stated in my previous letter, if you have someone in particular that you are looking for let me know and I would be happy to see if that name is in my list. Jan ----- Original Message ----- From: <Duckbutta12@aol.com> To: <FORBES-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 2:26 PM Subject: [FORBES] Day 2 of True Family Research > Hello, > I have recently sent out a letter to a lot of lists I feel that if we are > all going to try to help each other in research then we should all have the > same information. I have been recieving a number of letters that have asked > me to look someone up I will take all those letters into consideration and in > two days when i send this big gedcom out to those people who have at least > offered some support by giving a date or two are those who will recieve the > gedcom. You may not think that this is fair but read the letter at the bottm > of the page and you will see why i feel this way about the people who offered > no support at all! Now on another note let me make clear to everybody one > thing If you send me your gedcom i will add it in to this tree that i making > it is called the "Cascading Family Tree" It has, As we speak, 54,147 > individuals in it. And in two days i will send it to every person that has > either gave me a ged com file or that has wrote to me telling me information > to add to this family file. So think about what i am saying and reflect on > how you react and make sure you read the letter at the bottom of the page it > is written to one of the lists about the last letter I sent out! You should > keep that thought in mind! > > Here is the letter that was written to another list about my first letter > that had sent out: > "You know I never could understand all this. Why the secrets?? Why the > selfish?? Sounds like alot of spoiled kids. "Me first, me first." I don't > have much Jones info at this time or I would gladly send it. I'm on several > other list and we have no trouble exchanging. For every little thing I have > sent, I have been GREATLY rewarded. I think nothing of sending all I have. > Why are we doing this? If not to help others and learn more ourselves. I can > see y'all now when you get a new piece of info. "oh, let me hide this. It > might make someone's day, but I'm not going to let go of it," I bet y'all are > sure fun to live with." > > > ==== FORBES Mailing List ==== > *************FORBES-L Mailing List**************** > All material published on this list is copyrighted 2000 by the author. No reproduction in whole or in part is permitted without the author's written consent. > > ============================== > http://www.ancestry.com/dailynews > FREE newsletter on the current events and topics important to today's > family historian. > >

Do you ever check out the data or do you simply accept everything as fact? Jim Forbes At 03:26 PM 10/10/00 -0400, you wrote: >Hello, > I have recently sent out a letter to a lot of lists I feel that if we > are >all going to try to help each other in research then we should all have the >same information. I have been recieving a number of letters that have asked >me to look someone up I will take all those letters into consideration and in >two days when i send this big gedcom out to those people who have at least >offered some support by giving a date or two are those who will recieve the >gedcom. You may not think that this is fair but read the letter at the bottm >of the page and you will see why i feel this way about the people who offered >no support at all! Now on another note let me make clear to everybody one >thing If you send me your gedcom i will add it in to this tree that i making >it is called the "Cascading Family Tree" It has, As we speak, 54,147 >individuals in it. And in two days i will send it to every person that has >either gave me a ged com file or that has wrote to me telling me information >to add to this family file. So think about what i am saying and reflect on >how you react and make sure you read the letter at the bottom of the page it >is written to one of the lists about the last letter I sent out! You should >keep that thought in mind! > >Here is the letter that was written to another list about my first letter >that had sent out: >"You know I never could understand all this. Why the secrets?? Why the >selfish?? Sounds like alot of spoiled kids. "Me first, me first." I don't >have much Jones info at this time or I would gladly send it. I'm on several >other list and we have no trouble exchanging. For every little thing I have >sent, I have been GREATLY rewarded. I think nothing of sending all I have. >Why are we doing this? If not to help others and learn more ourselves. I can >see y'all now when you get a new piece of info. "oh, let me hide this. It >might make someone's day, but I'm not going to let go of it," I bet y'all are >sure fun to live with." > > >==== FORBES Mailing List ==== >*************FORBES-L Mailing List**************** >All material published on this list is copyrighted 2000 by the author. No >reproduction in whole or in part is permitted without the author's written >consent. > >============================== >http://www.ancestry.com/dailynews >FREE newsletter on the current events and topics important to today's >family historian.