On Sun, 8 Sep 2002 17:25:17 +0000 (UTC), jmudge@bellsouth.net wrote: >Sorry Benny, > >This is not spam. That CD contains ships manifests for 147 ships >arriving at the Port of New Orleans from 1861 and 1912. I have found >manifests for my maternal grandparents, my paternal grandmother, my >father and his two siblings all of whom came to the US through New >Orleans on this CD. To me that was worth the price I paid for the CD. > >I have no connection or interest with SBarbara. Her web site is very >good. > >Ciao, > >Josephine Montana Mudge Unsolicited advertising via email or on a news group like soc.genealogy.italian is spam. The question as to if the product being advertised is legitimate or not has absolutely nothing to do with the definition of spam. Lord knows we get enough of this junk mail via email, do we now have to be bothered with it here as well? I read this newsgroup to see what others are doing in their search for ancestors and occasionally offer a little help to someone else if I'm able. Is it too much to ask that that experience be add free? We have several self proclaimed genealogists pestering us with their wares, now somebody else got a CD burner and has gone into the data base business. It matters not how many manifests you've found on these CDs. I've located information on many, many ancestors back 8 and 9 generations. Does that mean that I can write a book on my sources and advertise it here? I don't think so. Benny