Hi One & All, I agree! I agree! I agree! I'm a professional genealogist, when a query is sent to me, I answer it & respond to the person who sent it to me. I also pass it on to the genealogy e-mailing list where I have seen questions asked about the same surnames. This is very helpful to others & a little clue may lead to a big discovery! :) Ex: This one I sent out the other day has gotten 4 responses! VALENTINE-TALLEY-GRUBB-MORTON :) Happy hunting, Helen (DCGS) Hi Guys, I think it is a good idea for Sandra or any other researcher/volunteer to post all answers to queries publicly to this board, assuming there is no invasion of privacy. It's my understanding that this list is archived somewhere, and perhaps a month or a year from now someone may access and search the archives, only to discover that they already have a cousin who was on the Chester board earlier asking the same questions. Every day someone new to on-line genealogy shows up doing searches for their surnames... It's only been in recent times that the light bulb for this has clicked on in my skull. I felt I would clog up a list if I posted a question about an ancestor when only one other person might have had a remote knowledge of them. However, I now understand that in the future someone may search the archives and will connect to me, and that's really the point, isn't it? Sharon No. VA : From: Sandra Ferguson [mailto:ferg@intelos.net] <SNIP>: : Someone has emailed me, asking why I post emails that came to me, : personally. The answer is that I do too many of these lookups to try to : Taylor and alter and edit things, before searching for answers and them : sending them on. I always feel that it's a terrible waste of : information to send it to just one person, and... <SNIP> ==== PACHESTE Mailing List ==== Visit the PA GenWeb Archives at http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/pafiles.htm