Not all name on the Church Membership list have to be member. I hade to call the list of a Catholic CH for a Photo year Book .The list had about 3500 families on it about 1200 were not Members over the years the church added names of a Bus drivers ,a cooks , friends of the Church and any one that may have worked for the church over the years . Just keep it in mine that not all church list are Gospel . Sorry just have say that. > 6. Membership Lists - lists of members of a church. Could contain just a . > list of names. Or more information like dates of events, addresses, > relatives, etc. Richard Brandstetter brandstetter.photo@att.net www.weddings-nj.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "SHAWN DEMPSEY" <shawnpdempsey@msn.com> To: <njessex@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2007 7:24 PM Subject: [NJESSEX] Church Records - What Can Be Found > Yesterday I attended my monthly meeting of the Parker Genealogical Society > of Colorado (PGS). I am also their webmaster. > > The guest speak, Valerie Eichler, spoke about Church Records, what can be > found and what types of records may be available. I jotted down some notes > and thought I would share it with you all. > > The following is not a complete list but something to think about when > looking for church records. Not all churches will have all of these > records. > But you may want to make inquiries of the churches you are researching to > see just what they do have. >

I haven't heard any recent complaints about posts disappearing. Either it isn't happening anymore or people have given up asking about it. I suspect the latter. One of the admin lists I belong to just had a long discussion about the very problem we were having: i.e. posts disappearing into a black hole. This has been happening to many other lists, not just ours. Here are some of the points made: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ... it is also known that now that the SPAM filters have been tightened, more mail is disappearing. Please make sure that your list subscribers know that they must send all posts in Plain Text. Emails in HTML disappear without a trace. ----- .... with the increased tightening of the spam filters some legit list mail is being lost--just disappearing. When a message just "disappears" like that with no bounce or notice--the problem is either HTML embedded in the message or something that got caught in the spam filters. If it is the latter, suggest the person change the subject a bit and see if that works. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Many other admins noted that they had done all of the above but legit, text-based messages were still disappearing. So to reiterate one more time (redundant?): If you have a message that "disappears" or doesn't post within 24-hours check the following: 1. Make sure you are sending only text-based messages. No background images in the email 2. No attached files 3. Trying changing/modifying the subject line slightly 4. Repost your message 5. If it doesn't show up a second time send me a copy at shawnpdempsey@msn.com and I'll post it for you. According to the admin list rootsweb has made a lot of changing over the past 6 months and they are still working out some issues. Thanks, Shawn Dempsey Essex County Mailing List Moderator, NJGenWeb County Coordinator, Essex County NJ http://www.rootsweb.com/~njessex