Hello, subscribers! I'm so excited to see this list get going. Since there's been no public announcement of the list as yet, all of you subscribers got an invitation letter from *me*! So you all know how to subscribe (and unsubscribe), what a digest is, and how to get to the GenConnect Boards. Thanks to the enthusiasm of Elnora Wyrick, there are already some Wills posted! I urge you all to take the information you have and post those to GenConnect. Everyone using the Rootsweb Surname Search or the US GenWeb search will be able to locate your information in a flash! Elnora has sent me a copy of "Out of the Wilderness," a book written by Janice Hardie-Mercer,Virginia King-McBee, and Frank Penny, and indexed by Billy Holder. I have written to Jan Mercer and Billy Holder about posting the contents on our future web-page. If that isn't possible, perhaps Elnora would consent to send it to those who connect to the lines in it. I've just been re-reading some of the Great McBee Hunt Newsletters. What a wonderful compendium of information! Those of you who don't have these newsletters, can go to <http://members.aol.com/mcbeenews/index.html> and download them. I plan to contact the addresses in those newsletters about this list, but right now I have a wedding to attend! Tipsy with champagne (and some beer), I continue on my laptop.... There are a number of McBee sites linked to the Great McBee Hunt page. Visit them! If you have missed posts, check out the Rootsweb archives. If you go to <http://archiver.rootsweb.com/archives/McBee-L/>, you should be able to see all the posts to our list since the registration was done. If you go to <http://archiver.rootsweb.com/archives/search.html> you can search in all Rootsweb lists. I will be posting my own line and queries soon! All the best, Listmama Valorie Cowan McBee Zimmerman, IBSSG Proud new listowner of Baysinger-L and McBee-L Black Diamond, Washington USA Proud sponsor of RootswebX-Mozilla-Status: 000918:38:54 1999 X-Mozilla-Status: 0801 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 FCC: /C|/Program Files/Netscape/Users/valoriez/mail/Sent Message-ID: <[email protected]> Date: Sat, 08 May 1999 18:38:54 -0700 From: Valorie Zimmerman <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Organization: sigh...someday, maybe... X-Mozilla-Draft-Info: internal/draft; vcard=0; receipt=0; uuencode=0; html=0; linewidth=0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: [email protected] Subject: Welcome to all subscribers Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello, I'm the proud new Listmom, Valorie Cowan Zimmerman. My mother's mother was a Baysinger, and I have Lola Corene Baysinger Wagner's Baysinger book, and family group sheets compiled by Paul Montgomery and others. I'm sure a tremendous amount of research has been done since the publishing of Lola Wagner's book, and I hope that the members of this list post their research results here on the list, and on the GenConnect boards. Since this list has not yet been publicly announced, all of you presently subscribed got an invitation letter from me, and know how to subscribe (and unsubscribe), how to post, where the GenConnect boards are, and so forth. Feel free to send invitations to join the list to any Baysinger researchers you know, or send their email addresses to me. I hope in the near future to establish a website as a home for the list and GenConnect boards, and all of you researchers. Please offer your help if you have any expertise in this area! I look forward to seeing all of your research results, and hearing your stories. I hope that this list can help link us living relatives, and help us all find our ancestors! If you have missed posts, check out the Rootsweb archives. If you go to <http://archiver.rootsweb.com/archives/McBee-L/>, you should be able to see all the posts to our list since the registration was done. If you go to <http://archiver.rootsweb.com/archives/search.html> you can search in all Rootsweb lists. I will be posting my own line and queries soon! All the best, Listmama Valorie Cowan McBee Zimmerman, IBSSG Proud new listowner of Baysinger-L and McBee-L Black Diamond, Washington USA Proud sponsor of Rootsweb