Hey everybody , No , don`t do this , the Jones family is World Wide ....... mine are in Canada , Phil ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joyce Libes" <joycelibes@comcast.net> To: <JONES-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 9:15 AM Subject: [Jones] Jones of VA, etc. > Is there a possibility in the future of dividing the Jones Lists into > regions? There are so very many by this name. My particular Jones research > is trying to find the people related to William Jones of Culpeper Co. > Virginia who married Jael Graves of Virginia. Two of their daughters, Nancy > and Sarah, married John and James Hawkins (sons of Matthew Hawkins Sr.) also > of the Culpeper Co. area. > > It would certainly help with research if the Jones were divided into maybe > North and South, or is this wrong. I belong to other lists doing research in > the Philadelphia area: Irish in Philadelphia, Kensington (an area of > Philly), etc. It does help. > > If anyone out there is related to William Jones and wife Jael Graves of > Culpeper Co. VA, I'd love hearing from them. I need to find out William's > parents, etc. There are 4 William Jones who are listed in Culpeper Co. > records. > > Joyce Colleen Libes > Muncie, IN > > > ==== JONES Mailing List ==== > Direct your questions, comments or problems to the listowner at jones-admin@rootsweb.com > For detailed instructions on subscribing and unsubscribing visit this site: > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/surname/j/jones.html > browse the archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/jones > search the archives: http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=JONES > Unusual JONES given names, http://members.aol.com/stjones/jones/oddnames.html >

This is a good discussion and should remind us of the need to identify our subjects as best we can. With the Jones surname being the 4th most common, and then with so many common first names, there is a need to provide some details as to state and time period. Otherwise the queery is lost in the sea of Joneses. I too like to see the vast majority of the queeries but do look closer at those that provide some level of detail. Thanks. Chris Jones Roswell, GA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Stevens" <joephil@nwlink.com> To: <JONES-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 4:22 PM Subject: Re: [Jones] Jones of VA, etc. > Hey everybody , No , don`t do this , the Jones family is World Wide > ....... mine are in Canada , Phil > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Joyce Libes" <joycelibes@comcast.net> > To: <JONES-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 9:15 AM > Subject: [Jones] Jones of VA, etc. > > > > Is there a possibility in the future of dividing the Jones Lists into > > regions? There are so very many by this name. My particular Jones research > > is trying to find the people related to William Jones of Culpeper Co. > > Virginia who married Jael Graves of Virginia. Two of their daughters, > Nancy > > and Sarah, married John and James Hawkins (sons of Matthew Hawkins Sr.) > also > > of the Culpeper Co. area. > > > > It would certainly help with research if the Jones were divided into maybe > > North and South, or is this wrong. I belong to other lists doing research > in > > the Philadelphia area: Irish in Philadelphia, Kensington (an area of > > Philly), etc. It does help. > > > > If anyone out there is related to William Jones and wife Jael Graves of > > Culpeper Co. VA, I'd love hearing from them. I need to find out William's > > parents, etc. There are 4 William Jones who are listed in Culpeper Co. > > records. > > > > Joyce Colleen Libes > > Muncie, IN > > > > > > ==== JONES Mailing List ==== > > Direct your questions, comments or problems to the listowner at > jones-admin@rootsweb.com > > For detailed instructions on subscribing and unsubscribing visit this > site: > > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/surname/j/jones.html > > browse the archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/jones > > search the archives: > http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=JONES > > Unusual JONES given names, > http://members.aol.com/stjones/jones/oddnames.html > > > > ______________________________

Joyce -- everyone: In a word, no this List cannot be broken into regions/countries, etc. From Rootsweb instructions to Listowners: You May Not: Change the overall focus/topic of the list. For example, you may not change a list that focuses on a given surname to exclude all except those from a specific lineage or region. You would need to request a second list with those restrictions if such was your goal. There are already a few other Jones oriented Lists http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/surname/j/jones.html and to see what Smith surname lists there are (more of them) http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/surname/s/smith.html You, or anyone else, could request a new Jones-oriented List; you would be the Listowner, could do an 'advertisement' on this List, should at that point join other Lists related to your search area (i.e., Virginia) and advertise there. If you are really interested in doing this, contact me off-list at mdcat.geo@yahoo.com and I'll lend you a hand getting started. I do agree with Chris that folks need to include enough detail for us to identify where their Joneses are from and even more importantly please, please change the subject of your email to reflect what is in your posting. That way, if your Jones-post is about SC and I'm not interested in folks in SC then I can delete the message without looking at it. A good query always includes: Who, What, When & Where. Kathi Jones-Hudson JONES Listowner __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day http://shopping.yahoo.com