The idea sounds good, but I don't have time to do it. Perhaps if I delete all queries that are older than one year old it would be manageable. The idea of inviting people to include a mailing address is a good one. Some are hesitant to post their mailing address on the Internet, though. The invalid e-mail addresses have made me consider linking to the free Ancestry.com message boards and discontinuing doing live queries altogether. If someone writes to tell me an e-mail link doesn't work, I remove the query. Susan Stockbridge Bellomo susanbellomo at yahoo dot com NMGenWeb County Coordinator: Chaves, Otero Co-Coordinator (Webmaster): San Miguel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Harold Kilmer" <hkilmer@plateautel.net> To: <NMGENWEB-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 6:36 PM Subject: Re: [NMGENWEB] From one of our researchers Hello NM Wild bunch: This is out of the question for me to do. The above is my opinion; below is the reason if you want to read it. I have considered placing on my Query instructions that the researcher should also include a snail mail mailing address, One out of a three hundred do any way. This would leave an address for those who think it is important for people to contact them. (If you have searched at the state archives libraries you will remember that there are register books of people who was searching for their lines many years ago. I share this from my experience with Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Oklahoma, North Carolina, Tennessee and Arkansas state libraries. You could write to some of those people and get lucky. I did.) Some people on the internet change their servers like they change their underwear and they think nothing of it. I can not think how checking your query list would work for the people who are using the Rootsweb automatic query systems. I post all Queries by hand and have had some people who have changed e-mail servers contact me and ask me to update their addresses on their queries. I do this. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Harold Kilmer, Coordinator for Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Lea, Quay and Roosevelt Counties in the great state of New Mexico. All of these counties are linked to: http://rootsweb.com/~nmcurry/index.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karen Mitchell" <km1109@aculink.net> To: <NMGENWEB-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 10:06 AM Subject: [NMGENWEB] From one of our researchers > >I would like to make a suggestion to you regarding the queries posted on >>the NMGenWeb. Today I tried answering two from the Santa Fe site and they >>both came back as undeliverable. This has happened to me before. I >>think that at least once a year the county coordinator would write an >>e-mail to the person who posted the query simply asking if they are still >>looking for the information. Then if the e-mail address isn't valid any >>longer, the coordinator should delete the e-mail message. >> >>I realize that this makes a lot of work for the coordinator however it is >>so frustrating to get on and see something that you can help with only to >>have your e-mail bounce. >> >> >>Pat > > > > ============================== > Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. > New content added every business day. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx > > ============================== Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx