I don't think that the value of the mailing list rests on its frequency but more on its content. I think the Cameron County email list is filled with important information. Cameron County is such a young county that the hunt for information usually leads to another county. I have also subscribed to various surname lists and they too die out after the exchange of data gets exhausted...but someone usually finds something exciting and start going strong again. Don't lose hope! Wendy >From: [email protected] >Reply-To: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Subject: PACAMERO-D Digest V04 #73 >Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2004 06:31:20 -0600 > >Content-Type: text/plain > >PACAMERO-D Digest Volume 04 : Issue 73 > >Today's Topics: > #1 [PA-CAMERON] Email List ["Mike" <[email protected]>] > #2 RE: [PA-CAMERON] Email List ["Pete Bennett" ><[email protected]] > #3 Re: [PA-CAMERON] Email List [[email protected]] > #4 Re: [PA-CAMERON] Email List [[email protected]] > #5 Re: [PA-CAMERON] Email List ["Pete Bennett" ><[email protected]] > #6 RE: [SPAM] [PA-CAMERON] Email List ["Matthew T. Hout" ><[email protected]] > #7 Re: [PA-CAMERON] Email List ["Marolyn Cole" ><[email protected]] > #8 [PA-CAMERON] e-mail list ["David, Nancie & Michael >Anderson"] > #9 [PA-CAMERON] Where else could they ["Matthew T. Hout" ><[email protected]] > #10 [PA-CAMERON] Email List ["Shelley or Larry Woods" ><[email protected]] > #11 Re: [PA-CAMERON] e-mail list ["Sue Bemiller" ><[email protected]] > >Administrivia: >To unsubscribe from PACAMERO-D, send a message to > > [email protected] > >that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > >and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software >requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > >______________________________ >X-Message: #1 >Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2004 10:37:00 -0500 >From: "Mike" <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Subject: [PA-CAMERON] Email List >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >There has been some talk on one of the State Coordinator lists about how >dead the county email lists are. I know I am subscribed to about 7 of them >in 3 states and they are all dead. > >Even Cameron County which was never all that busy, has been dead of late. > >Someone suggested to ask for input to see if we could figure out what is >going on. > >Are you no longer using the email lists as part of your research? > >Are the recent virus' effecting the way you use emails? > >Any other reasons? > >Is there anything you would like to see done differently? > >I know that in my personal experience, the Email lists were the main source >of finding information about my family lines and the most useful source of >information in breaking through brick walls. Now I see email lists that >once >generated 20-30 emails a day are now down to 1 post every two weeks. > >Your comments would be appreciated and useful. > >Mike Wennin >Come Visit the Cameron County Genealogy Project! >http://www.rootsweb.com/~pacamero > >______________________________ >X-Message: #2 >Date: Sat, 03 Apr 2004 16:24:42 +0000 >From: "Pete Bennett" <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Subject: RE: [PA-CAMERON] Email List >Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed > >Mike, >I certainly hope that Genealogy its self is not dead......wouldn't that be >something to know that it is as dead as the people we're searching for! >lol > Pete > > > >Send ALL mail to: [email protected] > >Visit my "All American" Home Page at: >http://members.fortunecity.com/petee77/ > >Chat with me I'm "Petee" on Microsoft Messenger > > > > > > > > > >From: "Mike" <[email protected]> >Reply-To: "Mike" <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Subject: [PA-CAMERON] Email List >Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2004 10:37:00 -0500 > >There has been some talk on one of the State Coordinator lists about how >dead the county email lists are. I know I am subscribed to about 7 of them >in 3 states and they are all dead. > >Even Cameron County which was never all that busy, has been dead of late. > >Someone suggested to ask for input to see if we could figure out what is >going on. > >Are you no longer using the email lists as part of your research? > >Are the recent virus' effecting the way you use emails? > >Any other reasons? > >Is there anything you would like to see done differently? > >I know that in my personal experience, the Email lists were the main source >of finding information about my family lines and the most useful source of >information in breaking through brick walls. Now I see email lists that >once >generated 20-30 emails a day are now down to 1 post every two weeks. > >Your comments would be appreciated and useful. > >Mike Wennin >Come Visit the Cameron County Genealogy Project! >http://www.rootsweb.com/~pacamero > > > >==== PACAMERO Mailing List ==== >Invite your family and friends to join us! >http://www.rootsweb.com/~pacamero > >_________________________________________________________________ >Tax headache? MSN Money provides relief with tax tips, tools, IRS forms and >more! http://moneycentral.msn.com/tax/workshop/welcome.asp > >______________________________ >X-Message: #3 >Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2004 11:53:48 EST >From: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [PA-CAMERON] Email List >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > >In a message dated 4/3/2004 10:35:58 AM Eastern Standard Time, >[email protected] writes: >There has been some talk on one of the State Coordinator lists about how >dead the county email lists are. I know I am subscribed to about 7 of them >in 3 states and they are all dead. > >Even Cameron County which was never all that busy, has been dead of late. > >Someone suggested to ask for input to see if we could figure out what is >going on. > >I think that one of the reasons that the CC list is more active (and more >interesting!) than the others is that one replies automatically to the >whole >list, rather than the sender. On several other lists I have posted >questions and >get no reply. Other people probably figure that "somebody else" has >replied. >Replying to the whole list leads to interesting discussions. The lists I >subscribe to where one replies only to the sender are almost completely >dead. > >Perhaps the recent slow down also has to do with the weather improving?? > >Cathi > >______________________________ >X-Message: #4 >Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2004 12:37:03 EST >From: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [PA-CAMERON] Email List >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > >Hi all - > >I love this list, and I think it's VERY active and has been much help. I >haven't been a subscriber all that long, and am wondering what it was like >if >it's seeming dead to some of you now!!! > >I am signed up on this list, and one for Cortland Co NY, and for Potter Co. >Cameron County is by far the most active, Cortland Co NY is semi-active, >and >Potter Co is dead and has always been judging by the archives (Mike Wennin >is >probably the most active submitter on that site too!). Cameron is the most >helpful. I did get responses from the messages I posted on Cortland, but >they >were very general replies -- hazy suggestions about looking at census >records, >etc. I think the reason the Cameron site is more helpful is because there >are >so many people enrolled on it. Many of them don't post a lot, but they are >there and do respond if something comes up that they know about. It would >also >be more dead if the site itself were not so active. Mike puts in a lot of >work, and it shows and is greatly appreciated! > >I use this board when I have a question. Most of my replies have come back >offline, and I think that is okay because my questions have been pretty >specific. I think sometimes that other people get tired of reading minute >details >about family trees that absolutely do not pertain to them. Of course, the >hard-core people like anything to do with genealogy, and sometimes there is >a >nugget of info in there that you wouldn't get in a private conversation, so >the >argument about public or private is really a personal argument..... >Everybody >does what they are most comfortable with. > >Maybe some of the problem is lack of advertising. Most of the sites have >only a menu choice for sign-up. If you're new to this, you probably don't >know >what the email list is -- I didn't for quite a while until somebody else >told >me about it and I signed up. And luckily, it was Cameron I was told about. >Had it been Potter Co, I probably would have continued thinking the email >list >was nothing....... > >So there's my opinion.....I'd hate to see this list go away!! >Laura Bent > >______________________________ >X-Message: #5 >Date: Sat, 03 Apr 2004 17:53:37 +0000 >From: "Pete Bennett" <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [PA-CAMERON] Email List >Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed > >Hi Laura, >Thanks for your comments, I think that our Cameron County List is like "One >Big Happy Family". Some of us have found that out to be true and that we >are >actually related. > >I belong to 4 lists(including(Potter) and this in my opinion is THE list to >be on! >Activity does make it all work though and I can see where there is, and >should be, call for concern. >If we don't participate we could loose it all. > > Don't lay back, add your comments, > Pete Bennett > > > >Send ALL mail to: [email protected] > >Visit my "All American" Home Page at: >http://members.fortunecity.com/petee77/ > >Chat with me I'm "Petee" on Microsoft Messenger > > > > > > > > > >From: [email protected] >Reply-To: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [PA-CAMERON] Email List >Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2004 12:37:03 EST > >Hi all - > >I love this list, and I think it's VERY active and has been much help. I >haven't been a subscriber all that long, and am wondering what it was like >if >it's seeming dead to some of you now!!! > >I am signed up on this list, and one for Cortland Co NY, and for Potter Co. >Cameron County is by far the most active, Cortland Co NY is semi-active, >and >Potter Co is dead and has always been judging by the archives (Mike Wennin >is >probably the most active submitter on that site too!). Cameron is the most >helpful. I did get responses from the messages I posted on Cortland, but >they >were very general replies -- hazy suggestions about looking at census >records, >etc. I think the reason the Cameron site is more helpful is because there >are >so many people enrolled on it. Many of them don't post a lot, but they are >there and do respond if something comes up that they know about. It would >also >be more dead if the site itself were not so active. Mike puts in a lot of >work, and it shows and is greatly appreciated! > >I use this board when I have a question. Most of my replies have come back >offline, and I think that is okay because my questions have been pretty >specific. I think sometimes that other people get tired of reading minute >details >about family trees that absolutely do not pertain to them. Of course, the >hard-core people like anything to do with genealogy, and sometimes there is >a >nugget of info in there that you wouldn't get in a private conversation, so >the >argument about public or private is really a personal argument..... >Everybody >does what they are most comfortable with. > >Maybe some of the problem is lack of advertising. Most of the sites have >only a menu choice for sign-up. If you're new to this, you probably don't >know >what the email list is -- I didn't for quite a while until somebody else >told >me about it and I signed up. And luckily, it was Cameron I was told about. >Had it been Potter Co, I probably would have continued thinking the email >list >was nothing....... > >So there's my opinion.....I'd hate to see this list go away!! >Laura Bent > > >==== PACAMERO Mailing List ==== >List your surnames in the Queries section of the Site to get the full >benefit of what there is to offer. >http://www.rootsweb.com/~pacamero > >_________________________________________________________________ >FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar – get it now! >http://toolbar.msn.com/go/onm00200415ave/direct/01/ > >______________________________ >X-Message: #6 >Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2004 12:59:35 -0500 >From: "Matthew T. Hout" <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Subject: RE: [SPAM] [PA-CAMERON] Email List >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="US-ASCII" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > >Are you no longer using the email lists as part of your research? > This is the 1st and only e-mail list (PACAMERO) I subscribe to. I >don't use it as much as I should, but when I do have questions they are >answered very quickly by several members. > >Are the recent virus' effecting the way you use emails? > I'm not worried about virus, I have a virus program that works >wonders. > >Any other reasons? > >Is there anything you would like to see done differently? > Everything works great, as well as those who had helped me. > > >Matthew T. Hout > >==== PACAMERO Mailing List ==== >Invite your family and friends to join us! >http://www.rootsweb.com/~pacamero > >______________________________ >X-Message: #7 >Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2004 13:08:02 -0500 >From: "Marolyn Cole" <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [PA-CAMERON] Email List >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >Hello List, > I just recently became acquainted with the Cameron County list and am >finding family that I had been looking for a long time. I am very >appreciative of the material on the site and the helpful answers that I >have >received from members. >Marolyn Campbell Cole, Athens, Bradford Co., PA; Bradford County Historical >Society Research Volunteer. > >______________________________ >X-Message: #8 >Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2004 14:06:38 -0500 >From: "David, Nancie & Michael Anderson" <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Subject: [PA-CAMERON] e-mail list >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > >Hi > >I only recently joined the list and haven't been very active as my >knowledge of Cameron County Genealogy is very limited, but I find the >subscribers to be very friendly and helpful. I have made connections with >others who are researching branches that connect to my trees and found >everyone very willing to help and share. > >Nancie > >______________________________ >X-Message: #9 >Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2004 13:03:21 -0500 >From: "Matthew T. Hout" <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Subject: [PA-CAMERON] Where else could they have been born / baptized >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="US-ASCII" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >I'm looking for the DeCoursey / DeCourcey family. Catherine Hout married a >John C. DeCoursey and had many children. From what I've gathered on this >site, they weren't baptized at St. Marks like my Houts were. My grandfather >was baptized at St. Leo in Ridgway but others were at St. Marks. Strange? >Any ideas? > >Matthew T. Hout > >______________________________ >X-Message: #10 >Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2004 15:38:53 -0800 >From: "Shelley or Larry Woods" <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Subject: [PA-CAMERON] Email List >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >Hi All, > >Just wanted to put my 2 cents in, for what it's worth in today's times... > >Regarding the amount of email going through the county pages, I myself am >(was) subscribed to at least 6 sites in 3 states tracking ancestors. Every >day I would come home to at least 100 emails telling me how to improve >this, >elimate that...well, you get the idea. Since I unsubscribed to most of >the >lists that particular kind of email has for the most part gone away. > >Either the slowness has to do with the amount of spam and viruses >circulating now, or EVERYONE has found the ancestors they were looking for! >Wouldn't that be a wondrous day? > >Still searching for MOREY, BUTTON, WESTERVILLE > >Shelley Woods >[email protected] > >______________________________ >X-Message: #11 >Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2004 07:49:12 -0400 >From: "Sue Bemiller" <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [PA-CAMERON] e-mail list >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >It runs on a cycle - Spring Break / the weather right now it will get >slower everyone is going outside. When it gets to hot they will be back >inside. For me summer till the end of October I slow down. > >But this list hasn't seen to slow down. > >Sue >Ohio >----- Original Message ----- >From: "David, Nancie & Michael Anderson" <[email protected]> >To: <[email protected]> >Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2004 3:06 PM >Subject: [PA-CAMERON] e-mail list > > > > Hi > > > > I only recently joined the list and haven't been very active as my >knowledge of Cameron County Genealogy is very limited, but I find the >subscribers to be very friendly and helpful. I have made connections with >others who are researching branches that connect to my trees and found >everyone very willing to help and share. > > > > Nancie > > > > > > ==== PACAMERO Mailing List ==== > > Invite your family and friends to join us! > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~pacamero > > > > Wendy Davis _________________________________________________________________ Tax headache? 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