I agree with Bob. However, to save myself lots of otherwise wasted time, I just delete this type of posting, since it is meaningless to me. I could click onto the web page included above the message, but I'm not that curious. Maggy Bob Forsythe wrote: > I apologise a bit for mentioning this, because it has been brought up > before, but these gatewayed messages that show up on the listserve are more > or less there in a vacuum. The message below clearly is in response to > something, but I don't have a clue what it might be. > > I'm simply not sure if it's efficacious to transport single messages from a > forum to a listserve if there are no references to what family lines are > being discussed or what the preceeding messages were. > > I don't know who wrote what appears below, I don't know what family line(s) > it might be referring to and I'm getting a lot of email like this that > basically say, "Thanks, that helps a lot" and I really don't have the time > to run them all back to the forum to determine if it's something I need or > can offer advice on. > > It just seems to me that the two should be separate. > > ***************************************************************************** Quoting "[email protected]" <[email protected]>: > > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > > > Surnames: > > Classification: queries > > > > Message Board URL: > http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.newyork.counties.jefferson/12452.1.1/mb.ashx > > > > Message Board Post: > > > > Thanks so much for your help - I seem to recall a story about Frank > > leaving his first wife and moving away from the Carthage/Wilna area, then > > re-marrying. My dad is from the first wife's line so no one can recall > > much about Frank or his parents. Oral tradition says Frank had three > > brothers - Hosia, Charlie, and Leon, but I have yet to confirm this > > through census records. I did find, however, census records confirming > > that Hosia, Charlie, and Leon all existed - just nothing that shows them > > all together, as a family, or who their parents were... I will keep > > looking!!