Hello Kathleen, I don't know how others feel, but as far as I'm concerned, anyone who descends a Germanna ancestor, no matter how far back, belongs in the database. At least that's the way I'm doing it. Sarge At 12/2/2011 09:11 AM Friday, Kathleen B. Simons wrote: *********START OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT********* >George, > >Good to hear from you and happy to learn you are back on a 'riling up' >track! > >You know, I could enter more data on the non-Germanna folks who descend >from the Germanna folks in my personal ancestry, but I have not done so >because my thougt is you may wish to keep it contained to the more >immediate connections. Instead, do you want to us enter as much of a line >as we have personally researched? I have done little research on the >Germannans. > >Just seeking your idea on what parameters we should honor~ > >Also, I can't speak for all but for me gen research and gen-related >communication slows considerably from about the week before Thanksgiving >to just after Christmas. I am soooo busy right now. It's tough balancing >the past with the present sometimes! > >Thanks for all you do~ > >Kathleen > >On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 1:39 AM, George W. Durman < >GermannaResearch@comcast.net> wrote: > >> >> Just in case any of you thought I had died, I wanted to let you know that >> I'm still alive and kicking. >> >> I've limited my posts on the various Mailing Lists and have been >> concentrating on adding data to our Germanna Tree at Ancestry. >> >> I have a stack of paper files about 2 feet high that I have accumulated >> over the years and decided to try to input the data into the Tree. >> >> Plus, I've been suffering some mild depression for most of this year and >> just haven't had the old "zing" I used to have. I'm sure many of you will >> appreciate my absence! >> >> I'm on meds now and hope to get back to riling up the Mailing Lists. >> >> Just as a matter of curiosity, I haven't seen many additions to the >> Ancestry Germanna Tree lately. No one want to add anything? >> >> Seriously, I'm just adding data and probably won't post much to any >> Mailing Lists. In fact, days go by without my checking my genealogy email, >> sometimes over a week without checking. Old age is for the birds. >> >> 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 >> >> Germanna descendant awarded Congressional gold medal - more at >> http://www.germanna.org/all_news >> ------------------------------- >> 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 >> > > > >-- >----- >Kathleen Bowen Simons >Falls Church, Virginia > >"I don't really care that they label me a Jesus freak - there ain't no >disguising the truth." >Newsboys, Jesus Freak ><http://www.myspace.com/roderickcsimons> >---------- >For more information about Germans in Virginia, please visit: >www.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 **********END OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT*********** 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