Hi all I'm relatively new to genealogy (3 and 1/2 months) and LOVE to get anything that might relate. I've learned so much from lists like this one, not just about my lines, which actually has been little, but about the times and the connections of one line to another. I also belong to specific name lists, but don't find them nearly as helpful. There is something about the community that a list like this one has that really appeals to me. I definitely do my share of deleting, but I also do my share of saving. I have, not only specific files for my lines, but also a general Genealogy file, where I save anything that I think might be useful later that doesn't relate specifically to a particular branch. I have been amazed at what I've learned in just this short amount of time. I almost always check out any URL that someone suggests and have LEARNED a lot. Maybe as I grow more knowledgeable, I won't find a list like this so fascinating, but right now, almost anything is interesting to me and I am grateful that someone like Glenn is taking the time to inform and educate me. There, that is my two cents... Leslie Louise Temples wrote: > Hello Laird: > > These postings have given me answers to questions that I had not thought of > posting because I didn't know the place of origin for the vital records. It also > gives me an idea of the larger picture of the relationships between the different > names (as in making them contemporaries of each other). I am at times too focused > on the smaller picture and forget the large ones. If someone makes a different > mailing list for this type of post I wouldn't be adverse to the idea. I would > just hate to lose access to something as valuable to this type of posting. > > Louise Temples > pc_genie@ix.netcom.com > > LairdTowle@aol.com wrote: > > > Hi All: > > > > My understanding of the purpose of this mailing list is that it is intended to > > be a place for subscribers to post genealogical problems so that other > > subscribers can help them. In other words, it should consist of questions and > > answers. > > > > I don't wish to be the grinch who stole Christmas, but it does not seen to me > > that this mailing list is a suitable place to republish enmass the Danville > > Vital Records, or any other such material publishished or unpublished, except > > in response to particular questions from other list members. > > > > If we all started publishing the Rockingham County material we have at hand, > > the list would soon be clogged with unneeded and unwanted emails which, it > > seems to me, verge on being spam. > > > > Am I along in feeling this is a diversion, albeit well intentioned, from our > > real intent? > > > > Laird Towle > > > > ==== NHROCKIN Mailing List ==== > > Send messages to the list to the "To" address found above in THIS message. > > To send commands (subscribe/unsubscribe), insert -request between the L > > and the @ in the address. Send only the command. > > **************** > > ==== NHROCKIN Mailing List ==== > RootsWeb Mailing Lists Archives: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > Rockingham County GenWeb site: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/1706/ > ****************