That is the best way. I have lost my patience with the boards and will only reply to the sender or the list.

While we are on the subject of the gatewayed messages to the list, I have to admit I am so confused by how to reply that I have given up on them......I feel very bad about this, but the frustration is too high a price. I just attribute it to my computer knowledge-- Does someone on this list wish to contact me on or off list as to how to do it---step by step---I will try again. Looking for Woodwards in Dutchess county. Tee On Nov 11, 2007 4:12 PM, Grant Pike <grel@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > That is the best way. I have lost my patience with the boards and will only > reply to the sender or the list. > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NYDUTCHE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

It is not your computer knowledge. It is the system. Do not blame yourself for the mess.

This comment may or may not reach sympathetic eyes and ears, but I think it needs to be said. You can lay all the frustrations on Ancestry.Com's door. Once they acquired nearly every internet genealogical site and/or got into proprietary arrangements with independents who would cooperate but not sell, everything has become more difficult if not next to impossible. They have ruined Rootsweb which was once a free service connecting people who volunteered their family information and organized as groups to publish public information found in libraries, court houses, etc. This year I dropped my subscription to Ancestry, et.al. after years and years--I was in there from the beginning when Ancestry was next to free and building a data base. It is all about money folks, and don't ever think otherwise. They are now taking everything that people have volunteered and reselling it in one form or another. I'd rather go to the effort and time to go to the Family History Library outlets and search it out and pay the minimal fees to have the material sent in from Salt Lake than to pay hundreds of dollars a year to Ancestry. The best that I've been able to determine is that there are no really free message boards any more--Ancestry owns them all I believe and/or is some arrangement with the site owners. This is why when you do a search and you find a page you will almost always sooner or later end up at Ancestry where you can get a short limited free trial followed by the promise that you will find everything you could want or need about your families by joining at the tune of hundreds of dollars for this and that, oh BTW this data base is not in your subscription...for Xmore $ a year you can view it too. The truth of the matter is that the historical records, if you can view the originals are what you really want with the subscription, but they are not bundled, so each has to be purchased separately. Lots of the trees are inaccurate as people have borrowed other peoples guesses and published them without knowing whether or not they are correct. Families are mixed up all over, and Ancestry doesn't care. It is all about the money. More time consuming, but I have found loads of information at local historical societies, google books, and as I said the Family History centers. Good luck, Susan Tee Huffaker wrote: > While we are on the subject of the gatewayed messages to the list, I > have to admit I am so confused by how to reply that I have given up on > them......I feel very bad about this, but the frustration is too high > a price. I just attribute it to my computer knowledge-- Does someone > on this list wish to contact me on or off list as to how to do > it---step by step---I will try again. > > Looking for Woodwards in Dutchess county. > > Tee > > On Nov 11, 2007 4:12 PM, Grant Pike <grel@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > >> That is the best way. I have lost my patience with the boards and will only >> reply to the sender or the list. >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NYDUTCHE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NYDUTCHE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >