Thanks for the info. I've been a list owner over 20 years and I never heard of the universal list - Roots-L . I just subscribed. Jerry On Feb 14, 2013, at 6:32 PM, Megan Zurawicz <listpig@earthlink.net> wrote: > On 2/14/2013 11:58, Nelda Percival wrote: >> >> So Sorry, I should have added in about mass postings. >> >> What is so wrong about being efficient? > > Nelda, if a genealogist is "efficient" enough to subscribe to every > county list that is of particular interest to them, and if their family > has been in this country a long time and has been fairly > mobile....taking my own tree as reasonably typical, they could easily be > on 50 or more county lists. > > That opens them up to getting *fifty* copies of "Genealogy gathering in > X county". > > That's not efficient by anybody's standards. > > Post it on the universal list - Roots-L. Then maybe the state list and > the counties within perhaps 50 miles of the town the gathering will be > held in. > > That's plenty. The folks who will be interested will hear about it. > The folks who have never been to that place, aren't going now, and whose > kinfolk were never from around there won't have to wade through dozens > of times of being told about it. > > Win-win. > > --pig > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LISTOWNERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message