Dear Mary, I am new to this Internet "thing" but your idea sounds just excellent to me! I don't know much about my "brick wall" couple, or about their Evangelical Lutheran Church beyond the fact that they all existed! It would be marvelous to find additional references to any of the above! I would be happy to contribute my tiny amount of information should you decide to go ahead and will look forward eagerly to hear your final decision. I think that in this way your site will be of far greater benefit to me personally! The comments from Loretta about the success of her site is encouraging, and I encourage you to go for it!!! Thank you for your dedication and willingness to expand the scope of this site. Kindest Regards, Nancy Roney Mitchell Searching HAAS in Easton, PA 1800-1883 On Fri, 17 Nov 2000 22:12:19 -0500 "Mary D. Taffet" <mdtaffet@mailbox.syr.edu> writes: > Hello subscribers, > > I maintain 10 other mailing lists for Rootsweb, including several > surname lists and several county lists. On those mailing list > pages, I > have included a researcher profile section to allow subscribers to > post > their research interests -- both to allow others to contact them and > to > allow their interests to be available to a search engine. > > I would like to propose that a section like that (though perhaps a > separate page would be better...) be added to the mailing list page > for > LUTHERAN-ROOTS. > > First, let me give you some links to other pages I have created > that > include sections like the one I have in mind: > > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~mdtaffet/vabuckin_list.htm#R_A > > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~mdtaffet/moses_list.html#R_A > > The Moses page, in addition to including researcher profiles, also > includes immigrant profiles, with a link between the immigrants and > the > persons researching them: > > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~mdtaffet/moses_list.html#Immigrants > > Here's what I propose to do: > > -- Add a new page for researcher profiles, to include > surnames, > geographic locations, and specific churches of interest. > > -- Add a new page (or use the same page as the researcher > profiles) for > immigrants (and also perhaps the non-immigrant ancestors like I have > on > the Moses page -- where a non-immigrant ancestor would be the > earliest > ancestor you can find, but you don't know where they came from) > > -- For people that post their interest in particular > churches, I will > make sure that an entry exists in the directory for that church, > and > then the researcher profile and church can be linked together. > Also > perhaps the surnames can be linked there as well. > > > For this proposal to work, several things will need to happen: > > 1) You must communicate your desire to be included, and provide > whatever > information you wish to have included. At the minimum, a researcher > profile would be needed, and optionally one or more immigrant > ancestors > and one or more churches of interest. This can be done on or off > list. > > 2) VERY IMPORTANT: You must allow for the fact that I will only be > able > to add a couple of these on any given day; patience will be > necessary. > > 3) Where this will really start to pay off is when you look over > the > updates and find an entry for one of your own ancestors or a church > you > are interested in as well -- then you can give me your researcher > profile if you haven't already, and I can start to add additional > links > under each entry. > > A researcher profile should contain the following information: > > -- Name > -- E-mail address > -- Web address if any > -- Something to show a link to the Lutheran/Reformed church (and > whatever other churches belong here that aren't covered by that > label), > whether that link be an ancestor (immigrant or non-immigrant) or a > church, or perhaps just surnames known to be associated with > Lutherans. > > > An ancestor profile should contain the following information: > > -- Name (and name variants if applicable) > -- Approximate birth and death dates > -- Approximate location > -- If immigrant, point of emigration (i.e. where did the boat leave > from?), point of immigration (i.e. where did the immigrant settle, > or > where did the boat land?), year of immigration and name of ship if > known > -- Name of spouse if known > -- Names of children if known > -- Connection to Lutheran/Reformed, which would include church > membership, burial in a church cemetery, etc. > > > A church profile should contain the following information: > > -- Current name (and any former names) of church if still in > existence; > otherwise any former names by which the church was known > -- Approximate year founded, if known > -- Location (Country, State or Province, County, Township, etc.) > -- Names/locations of any cemeteries associated with the church > -- If no longer in existence, approximate year of closure if known > -- Current synod membership if known, or if no longer in existence, > location where records can be found if known > -- Website address if any; by this I mean a website dedicated to > the > genealogy/history of the church, not a current webpage for current > members > -- Photos would also be acceptable, but those would need to be sent > directly to me, as attachments are not allowed on Rootsweb > > > Please let me know what you think about this proposal. > > Also, let me warn you that I will soon (finally...) be adjusting > the > prepend for this list. The current prepend is [LUTHERAN-ROOTS-L]. > As > this is one of the longer prepends, and as we voted some time ago > to > shorten this prepend to LUTH-ROOTS, I think it is about time that > this > change be made. > > Of course, what will happen is that, for a while at least, messages > might come in as [LUTH-ROOTS] Re: [LUTHERAN-ROOTS-L], but that > behavior > if seen at all will be transient in nature. > > -- I look forward to your comments, > Mary Taffet > List Admin for LUTHERAN-ROOTS > mdtaffet@syr.edu > > ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.