Thank you Mr. Pears for your kind and much appreciated welcome to the List. I have been on numerous lists most have welcomed the opportunity to follow threads that are occasionally thrown-up by these interchanges of information and comment. You can never tell - perhaps there might even be a serendipitious moment for someone on the list contained in this seemingly innocous exchange between Mr. Ovington and myself. James. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Pears" <bp@bpears.org.uk> To: <northumbria@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2010 6:16 PM Subject: Re: [NMB] LOCATING A WILL > On 21/03/2010 18:02, D HIGGINS wrote: >> Hello List - as you can see below, List member Nivard Ovington has fully >> and >> swiftly replied to my question. Thank you Nivard and good hunting to all >> on >> the List. > > James > > Please don't copy private e-mails to the list. > > Those answering your post have a choice - they either respond via the > list or they reply directly to you. For many reasons I prefer folks to > reply via the list, but when people reply directly we must respect > that choice. By all means thank people via the list - but don't copy > their private e-mails here. > > Brian > -- > Brian Pears (Gateshead, UK) http://www.bpears.org.uk/ > Joint List Admin NORTHUMBRIA Genealogy Mailing List > GENUKI Northumberland Maintainer > > > The NORTHUMBRIA FAQ page is located at > http://www.bpears.org.uk/NorthumbriaFAQ/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NORTHUMBRIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

On 21/03/2010 18:42, D HIGGINS wrote: > You can never tell - perhaps there might even be a serendipitious moment for > someone on the list contained in this seemingly innocous exchange between > Mr. Ovington and myself. As I said, if someone chooses to reply privately, you should respect that choice. Your opinion on the content of that e-mail is irrelevant - it was a private e-mail and as such it should not have been copied to a public list. So let me repeat - do not copy private e-mails to the list. As it happens, on this occasion Nivard responded off-list because a near-identical query had been answered at length on the list just a few days ago. You could have discovered this by using the list archives - there's a lot there on obtaining Wills quite apart from the recent posts. The recent post is at http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/NORTHUMBRIA/2010-03/1268824323 and you can find our searchable achives at: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=NORTHUMBRIA or browse at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/NORTHUMBRIA/ Brian -- Brian Pears (Gateshead, UK) http://www.bpears.org.uk/ Joint List Admin NORTHUMBRIA Genealogy Mailing List GENUKI Northumberland Maintainer