Benson, you have a few areas you need to supply more information about. Beattymt@aol.com was a bit abrupt, but I am sure it was not meant to be that way. Being a teacher, I understand that you just do not know about procedures and were doing the best you could. Therefore, I am going to go through this message and try to explain the correct procedures. Your original message will have greater signs beside it. My explanations should not. Plus, I will space between the original and my explanation. BETH THURMAN >Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 01:20:14 -0500 >Old-To: ncscots-l@rootsweb.com This is an incorrect address. Below is the correct one. correct address: NCSCOTS-L@rootsweb.com >From: Beattymt@aol.com (by way of Benson Wills <btw@ntrnet.net>) >Subject: McClure >I'm forwarding this misdirected message to the list. It was sent to the >ncscots-l-request address, which is only for subscribe & unsubscribe >commands... To subscribe and unsubscribe, you use these addresses: NCSCOTS-request-L@rootsweb.com or NCSCOTS-request-L@rootsweb.com The L list sends you one message at a time, and it gets there faster. The D list saves the messages up and you get a wad at a time, and sometimes it is confusing because people do not use their delete button and keep sending the same messages over and over with their replies. > >Truthfully, a message like this is not likely to get results. It needs >some first names, specific locations, and time periods. The reason she or he feels that there will not be any results is that all you have given anyone is a name. If you want the best response, you need to tell the list (subscribers, such as Beattymt and me) all the information you know. For example, do you know the McClures' first names, when and where they were born, what their parents' names were, and what the names of their children are (if they had any). Remember, all the people on this list are just like you. They are using this site as a source to get information. They are researching, too. The list is not a tool to do your research for you; it is just an aid in the event that someone else happens to be searching for the same people or family as you. Therefore, you have to tell what you know, and they can share with you what they know (if they know anything.) All of us would like to have the answers to our searches immediately, but unfortunately , some of us have been researching for years....20 or more, and still do not have all the answers. *smile* Therefore, your request for information as fast as you can get it is a bit "far out" for those of us who have been searching for years. Give them some details with which to help you in your search , such as names, places, times, etc. Then , just sit back and hope that there is someone else on this list who is researching the McClures, too, and that they will feel compelled to help a student who is needing information for his school project.<grin> Be patient. Also, subscribe to the list so that you can trade emails with people. When you are through, unsubscribe. You subscribe and unsubscribe by using the NCSCOTS-request-L@rootsweb YOu just write subscribe or unsubscribe where the subject is and turn off your signature. > >Anyway, here is the message. >----------------- > >ncscots, i was wondering if you had the geneology for McClure. i need it as >fast as i can get it for a school project due the 1-19-99. > > thanks Also,, it is polite to leave a signature so that they know what to call you when they reply. I hope this helps you, BETH THURMAN > > >==== NCSCOTS Mailing List ==== >691 Highlanders received land grants from the Crown between >the years 1732 and 1775, most in the Cape Fear region. > > Beth Thurman or Terri Wolfe Monticello, AR 367-2701