Sarge, Agreed, Same goes for your five trailers here. They get repeated with everything--and if you don't snip them, then repeated twice, and so on. As a list administrator myself, I try to remind users of this. But, I may as well be talking to the wall. Imposing byte limits on posts just creates more work for me because then they bounce to me and I have to review them, and it's just easier to pass them through and have people use up more byte space complaining about it. Call me defeated on this one. I give up. This is nothing new. As an illustration, I'm responding to your entire post just to show how it goes. Loving the ancestry.com site you put up. That was a bold move, but a good one. I haven't been that active on it lately, but just knowing it's there is a good feeling. And no, I have still not mastered it but I am sticking to things I REALLY now for sure and trying to tread slowly as I go along. I really appreciate the helpful hints you and others are sending to us. I still have not learned out how to "disconnect" marriages and children. A main thing to always do is check if a person or a source is already there. I, personally, do not need every "location" to give me the genealogy of the particular county. I use the county where the event occurred at the time that county was which. I find the location source of say, "Madison, 1793; Culpeper 1749; Orange.....etc" very annoying. So, for things I've worked on, I've just changed it to the county where the record is filed. We don't all need nursemaiding. That being said, if I see something like "married in Madison County in 1750....uh, no they weren't as that county did not exist then. I'd like to hear others thoughts on this, as I suppose we should all try to be consistent with one another. Craig On Sep 19, 2011, at 1:34 AM, George W. Durman wrote: > > Folks, if you receive List posts in the Digest Mode, PLEASE snip out everything except the specific part to which you are replying. > > DO NOT include all of the Digest in your replies! AND, change the subject line so that it matches your reply and the post to which you are replying. Seeing a subject line like "Digest Mode..." doesn't tell us a darn thing about your subject. > > Now I know some of you are going to gripe about this post. "Doesn't Sarge have anything better to do than lecture us?" All of you are adults (mostly senior citizens, or almost) and have been using the Internet for some time; so, you have no excuse such as, "I don't know how to snip." You all do know how to use your mouse pointer, click and drag to highlight text, and DELETE it! Just remember that everything you send back in your replies goes into the Archives at Rootsweb and Ancestry and just adds more superfluous bytes, which Rootsweb/Ancestry must accommodate with more and more storage space. Give 'em a break! > > Sarge > > > Germanna Database at Ancestry: > http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/28427876/recent?o_iid=41125&o_lid=41125&o_sch=Web+Property > > My Germanna Database at Rootsweb: > http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=germanna > > My Germanna Website at Rootsweb: > http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~george/index.html > > ******** > How did the departure of so many Germans in 1709 effect later emigration? Hear John Blankenbaker speak on October 1, 2011 at Graves Mountain Lodge, Madison, VA. For more information: http://germannacolonies.org > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GERMANS-VA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GERMANNA_COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message