Dear Margit: Like Kathleen, I'm sorry you had a bad experience. It appears that one bad apple has soured your opinion of everyone on the list, and especially everyone who happens to be from New York. By the way, many, if not most of the people on NY lists don't even live here but they are researching the area. How do you know the person who insulted you lives here? Many of us who do happen to live here have been on this, and other NY lists for years trying to help hundreds if not thousands of people who researching in this area but happen to be geographically challenged (not living near NY). No one responded to a lookup request you made. I don't recall the request or what the locale was but perhaps there is no one on the list who can conveniently do this for you. If it was for Montauk, wrong time of year to ask! You might want to try Random Acts or a list that is specifically designed for lookups. Or, repost. Many folks are coming back from the holidays and winter vacations and may not have seen your previous request. I don't think I did and Kathleen doesn't remember it either. Sometimes, not often, but sometimes, people don't know what they are asking. They think it is a simple request and they can't understand why no one will help them. I had a guy once get furious at me because I said I couldn't go and do a free lookup for him, copy all of the files, mail it off, etc. from the Suffolk County Surrogates Court. Furious. Until I told him that it was 180 miles round trip! Did he offer to pay me mileage, gas, postage, anything? No. Just complained about how doggone unfriendly we are in NY. So, although we are a tough lot here in NY, we are neither "haughty taughty" nor deliberately rude. Far, far, from it. The only folks that I know who think like that have either never been here for any amount of time or haven't been here in years. It's a popular sport to say that NYers are rude. We're used to it but it doesn't make it true. Usually it is the other way around in my experience. You should see how some of the out-of-towners treat our clerks at the repositories... Here in NY we call it "hoity toity." :) We are to the point; perhaps not overly chatty. The pace of our city is usually very fast. We need you to get to the point quickly if we are going to help you or we move on. We walk fast, we talk fast. We are probably the most tolerant people on the planet unless you block a street. Then you'd better just expect to get honked or yelled at. Because of this tolerance you will rarely find a NYer making a broad brush stereotypical statement about a whole group of people from somewhere else, not Minnesota farmgirls certainly. Oh, maybe New Jersey. <G> By the way, did you know that there are still family farms within 20-30 miles of NYC? Yep. Did you know that there are 37,500 farms in NY State? Did you know that NY ranked third in fresh sweet corn (vs grain corn for feed) and corn silage production nationwide? Ninth in oat production? Number one in cabbage production Number two (after Vermont) in maple syrup production. Third, behind California and Washington State for grapes (make sure you visit the vineyards on the east end of LI when you come, we make some terrific wines). Eighth in the country for onion production? Twelfth for potatoes (I think we used to be second behind Idaho until a blight hit the Long Island crops about 35? years ago - Walter, when was that?). Second in the nation for fresh snap beans. Second for apples AND FIRST FOR PUMPKINS!!!! We rank 11th for Christmas Trees! Milk is NY States absolute number one agricultural product and it accounts for over one-half of total agricultural receipts for the state. Milk production ranks third in the county. Yep. Lil' ol' NY. Moooooo. Those cheeseheads have nothin' on us... ;) Source: NY State Dept. of Agriculture, 2002 statistics. Hope you hang around. Best regards. Nancy. Nancy Coleman NLColeman@worldnet.att.net Professional NYC & LI Research Services www.GenealogyPro.com/ncoleman.html ncroots@worldnet.att.net Coordinator, Nassau County GenExchange http://www.genexchange.org/county.cfm?state=ny&county=nassau List Administrator, LI-Rooters http://www.genexchange.org/MailListForm.cfm?cat=NY ----- Original Message ----- From: "Margit" <margit@eot.com> To: <NY-LONGISLAND-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 10:05 PM Subject: Re: [NY-LONGISLAND] Montauk, Long Island, New York? > Thanks Walter, I have appreciated your help over the last few months. When I > visit this year, at least I will know where to go on Long Island thanks to > you. I am now going off this list, as it appears that you have no one on it > that helps with lookups for obits at all or other information. I also have > tried to help people on the list and have gotten the haughty taughty return, > guess being a farm girl from Minnesota would not rate high with anyone in > New York as knowing much to help anyone. At least here in Minnesota, we know > how to treat people with consideration and go out of our way every day to > help others all over the world. > Night, > Margit > _\\|//_ Vennlig hilsen > ( o o ) Margit > *-=-=-oOO-(_)-OOo-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-* > > > > On 1/25/04 (7:28:05 PM MST), Margit in Minnesota with 20+" of fresh snow > > coming your way ... (margit@eot.com) asked, > > > > "Would there possibly be any records online for Montauk, Long Island, New > > York?" > > > ==== NY-LONGISLAND Mailing List ==== > Karima, List Administrator mailto:NY-LONGISLAND-admin@rootsweb.com > List Guidelines: http://userweb.springnet1.com/quest/LongIslandWelcome.html >