This is true.  I used to be a firm believer in this. But have since quit doing this. Reason. When searching archives of messages or running a filter, doing a search etc.  these endless lines can REALLY slow things down.  Example.  Say you want to do a search of the archives of gentips-l for a surname "Blanchard" What you get is every message I have ever posted to the list.  Now, granted you may actually want to know that I are researching the Blanchard surname, we may connect.  But after that you have to weed through all of my posts to get to messages actually dealing with the Blanchard family.  I have decided that when posting to newsgroups or email lists, I leave out the surname line.  With the searchable archives, anyone researching my surnames is bound to find me through my past posts. Pamela Wagoner (by way of Genealogy Records Service ) wrote: > > For all those who do not list names they're researching at the end of your > messages, I highly recommend that you do.  In one of those circuitious > events I > got an email from a lost relative who had her 2nd birthday party at my > grandparents' house. > > Now how do I determine her relationship to me.  Someone once gave me a cousin > chart, but I can't find it.  Any web pages with such a thing? > > Pam > Oregon > > Boyle, Sheridan, McLaughlin, Curtin, McDonald, Goble, Wagoner > > ==== GenTips Mailing List ==== > To contact the GenTips list owner, use converse@alltel.net