Why not just recommend that the poster (and societies) post to Gen-Events, a RW list specifically for noting events, whether conferences or reunions. All subscribed are interested in hearing about events anywhere in the world. And I'm aware that the Cumberland Gap event is pretty big, with people traveling long distances to participate--I know someone who came from Europe last year to exhibit. Maybe Gen-Events should be publicized more, so it gets more subscribers (I have no idea how many are subscribed, though I am myself), but the right forum for this kind of post DOES already exist on RW... Claire On Feb 15, 2013, at 1:47 PM, Nelda Percival wrote: > ...I have always wondered why there isn't a section to addressed this type of posting on rootsweb. > > Maybe, even a letter that goes out to the societies/groups that might would / could organize such a get together... it might even cover reunion notifications. ...

On 2/15/2013 6:18 PM, Claire A wrote: > Why not just recommend that the poster (and societies) post to Gen-Events, a RW list specifically for noting events, whether conferences or reunions. All subscribed are interested in hearing about events anywhere in the world. And I'm aware that the Cumberland Gap event is pretty big, with people traveling long distances to participate--I know someone who came from Europe last year to exhibit. Maybe Gen-Events should be publicized more, so it gets more subscribers (I have no idea how many are subscribed, though I am myself), but the right forum for this kind of post DOES already exist on RW... > > Claire Claire: In fact, there are ... GEN-EVENTS general UT-GEN-EVENTS (read only) events in Utah ENG-GEN-EVENTS events in England AUS-GEN-EVENTS events in or about Australia CAN-GEN-EVENTS events in or about Canada ... which I found by doing a mailing list search for "gen-events". When I did a mailing list search for "events" the list of hits got a bit longer, but a number of the hits relate to list descriptions which include historical events. Here are two that demonstrate that many RootsWeb subscribers want to get *selected* information ... NYCMETRO (read only) gen events, etc., in the New York metro area CA-SACRAMENTO-EVENTS - the name says it all Darrell