Bryon Hill: I am sorry that you misinterpreted my message. In taking what I said out of context, it does change the line of thought I was trying to address. I have found it necessary sometimes to search through someone else's list of information, to find someone who doesn't seem to exist, other than by name, at a later time. I have had success finding several lost persons, with just a name, by the help of someone's later list of family memebers. For fact I have located two major family lines by finding someone who had them listed as family members, but nothing else to go on. I then researched and found contacts for these people through the years, and so was able to prove what family they belonged to. It did help my research by knowing where to possibly find information on them, and when. Thanks for your reply, and no one wants information to be more accurate than I do! I Hope this explains more to you. I am sorry I did not thank you before for coming to my help for my involvement in a Virus situation that I had no control over. I do wish to say THANKS FOR YOUR HELP! A Hill researcher too, Bettijane Larson [email protected] ---- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, June 08, 2002 12:57 PM Subject: Re: [HILL-L] The Hill Family of Chowan County North Carolina--Book In a message dated 6/8/02 1:13:43 PM Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: I was searching the Hills for Hill's from the states mentioned, and disagree with the Hill letter about not using other's work. PRIVATE Bettijean: That's not what I said!!!!! I take issue with the fact that you misinterpreted my email and chose unnecessarily to post your misinterpretation publicly on the HILL list. I don't think you will find ANYWHERE in my email where I said anything about "not using other's work"!!!!! It is my job as HILL _L administrator to keep the integrity of this list at the highest level, and normally that includes the barring of people trying to sell or promote the sale of books on the list, especially a book that I have already had to contact the author about because of glaring errors. Now, rather than publicly embarrass the author, or publicly embarrass the one promoting the book, I chose to post a well-meaning email full of useful standards that should help anyone seeking any kind of genealogical information from the research of others. Your email is not what I would expect from someone I so diligently helped and defended last year when your computer virus infected through direct emails ! with several of our subscribers!!!! Byron Hill HILL-L Administrator