HHB, I think your idea for managing the roll call sounds workable and beneficial. You mentioned you thought names being searched only come from Louisiana. My gr grandparents came from France, Italy and Ireland and all came to and settled in New Orleans to raise their families. A suggestion would be when a name is listed to put where they originated from, i.e. Roques - France; Messina - Italy; Fitzpatrick - Ireland. but leave blank if you do not know where an off spring originated. like through marriage. Merle in Texas RHB wrote: > Could we collect everyone's roll call of names along with their email > address and just combine them? > > This would not even have to be spreadsheet; maybe just a word processing > doc with the names listed [alphabetically & horizontally, to save space]. > > Then a pdf copy could be sent [offlist] to whoever requested it. > > This would allow us to scroll through the different members of LAORLEAN, > looking at the names they are researching without having to sift through > roll call messages mixed in with other list messages. For example, > frequently people will reply to an entire digest without deleting all > the irrelevant other messages. This means that readers have to sift > through long, repeated messages over and over again. Speaking for just > myself, I just don't have that much time. > > So getting all the roll call names in one place without other list > messages interspersed would be a real help. > > To make this more manageable, we might ask that the names being search > only come from Louisiana. > > The problem is that as new list members join LAORLEAN they won't know > that such a list exists. I don't know how to solve this. Someone might > have an idea... > > But, I'll give an example: see below: > > ---------------- > Renee Hotard, bennettrh@earthlink net > Direct Lines: Aufrere, Benich, Bopf, Borne, Bossie [Bossier], Bourgeois, > Boutte, Calendre, Carmouche, Chenet, Chennion, Chevalier, Couturier, > Cunningham, DeGruy, Diederlen, Doss, Dubuisson, Dupont dit le Kintrek, > Durand [or Lapeyre], Engel [Inglar], Evans, Folse, Gendner, Guillemet > dit La Lande, Herzog, Hotard, Hubert dit la Croix, Huval, Perret, Pujol, > Rome [Rommel], Ruth, St. Amand, Tregre, Trosclair, Verges, Witzman, Zeringue > Allied Families: Henning, Lapeyronnie, Middleton > ---------------- > Bridgett , mrszipp@cox.net > Names: Baldwin, berril, Bourgeois, Davis, Estave, Estavez, Golden, > Halligan, Landry, Musselman, Reich, Riehm, Tierney, Simoneaux, Ulmer > ----------------- > Audrey H, rhopper454@aol.com > Names: Brannon, Condon, Eastin, Gondron/Gondran, Harang, Himmelreich, > Lenz, McKenzie, Servat, Weinstein > ------------------ > Craig Borne, cjborne@comcast.net > Names: Borne/LeBorne, Bettemont, Haydel, Perret, Daspit, Latour, > D'arensbourg, (Emma Florinda) Lucas, Davis, McStea, Schuyler Thibodaux, > Belanger, Himel, Porche, Bergeron, Duhe, Bourgeois, Capponi, Bulger, > (Ann) Riley, Merrill, (Sophie) Tennermann/Teneman, Gilhust, Dossat, Lamothe > --------------------------------------- > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LAORLEAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >