ILJOHNSO-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > ============================snip===pun intended=========== > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: POSSIBLE RULES AND GUIDELINES JOHNSON COUNTY ROOTS WEB > Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 16:15:14 EST > From: GGCARDS@aol.com > To: ILJOHNSO-L@rootsweb.com > > HI EVERYONE, > HERE'S HOPING THAT ANY EXISTING RULES AND GUIDELINES CONCERNING QUERIES AND > PUBLISHED JOHNSON COUNTY INFORMATION SENT TO THE JOHNSON COUNTY ROOTS WEB, MAY > BE RESTRICTED TO OUR OWN INDIVIDUAL ANCESTRAL FAMILIES WHOM WE ARE ACQUAINTED > WITH, OR WHOM WE HAVE STUDIED AND/OR RESEARCHED AND DOCUMENTED; OR THAT > QUERIES AND PUBLISHED JOHNSON COUNTY INFORMATION BE SUBMITTED CONCERNING OUR > ANCESTRAL FAMILIES' NEIGHBORS AND/OR FRIENDS, OF WHOM WE HAVE THOROUGHLY > RESEARCHED AND DOCUMENTED. I'M SURE NOBODY WOULD WANT SOMEONE ELSE TELLING > OTHERS THAT YOUR GRANDMOTHER'S NAME IS "EVA", WHEN YOU PERSONALLY KNEW YOUR > OWN GRANDMOTHER , AND YOU KNOW HER NAME IS 'EMMA", FOR EXAMPLE. THIS > PROCEDURE WILL CUT DOWN ON COSTLY REPEATED RESEARCH ERRORS, AND WILL PROMOTE > MORE ACCURACY, AND GREATER HONOR AND REMEMBRANCE, IN THE LONG RUN, FOR OUR > JOHNSON COUNTY ANCESTORS FOR WHOM I HOPE WE ARE DOING THIS RESEARCH FOR. > SINCERELY, BRAD BIRKNER > > ______________________________ > > Hi Good Folks, I DO NOT normally expend energy to read let alone answer messages such as the above. Since I am in an exceptional mood today I'll make the exception. <grin> The typing is toooo difficult to read when in all caps. All CAPS indicated "SHOUTING" to most of us who have been around awhile. I normally try to read between two and eight hundred messages a day. An impossible task ... thus, I delete many that do not have the courtesy to follow simple courtesy [redundant usage intended], insist on anonymity, and/or feel that they do not need to follow instructions for posting queries and surnames on the various county sites I sponser for USGenWeb. Still, I will say that often [especially right after Christmas with all the new computers and online service] there is an influx of this type of message. Mostly from "newbies". So, Brad is this is the case in your case, re-read Mora's post to this list in response to your post. Great non-hostile advice. Mora and I have corresponded for awhile and she sure does help me, every collateral name she brings up is one step closer to connect my blood lines. A hearty thank you to such as her!! Groets, Bill -- from nwoHIo, vriendelijk groeten, Bill ASC, NEGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~negenweb/ NEBRRoots-L@rootsweb.com; sub <NEBRRoots-L-request@rootsweb.com> NEBRHeritage-L@rootsweb.com sub <NEBRHeritage-L-request@rootsweb.com> EKIS Andreas _History of the State of Nebraska_ Project: http://www.ukans.edu/carrie/kancoll/andreas_ne/