Bonnie, While reading your mail about E-Bay and you do have a good point am I correct in believing you are a THARPE? If so, are you researching the family name and from the Lawrence County, PA area? Do you have MAXWELLs and GARDNERs (sp) mixed in with the THARPEs family name? Thanks! Larry --- Bonnie <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > I can understand why you do not want people advertising ebay items, but.... > Alot of reports on Rootsweb being a fraud and selling our information to > Ancestry.com but we still use it. > > I have used Ebay for over 4 years and never had I had a bad seller, i'm sure > i'll run up on one oneday, although, if you look at the sellers feedback for > the most part it will let you know what type of seller they are, honest or > slow shipping, or not so honest. > If you see photos on there that are family, you don't have to bid on them, > right click and copy. > If you see some old family bibles, most people have most of the information > wrote out on the page. Take it and use it as a research source for your > family history! > Many free things on Ebay for genealogy researchers. > They have old school yearbooks which I have found my grandfather in dating > 1885, which I didn't even know they existed back then, but you can find > hundreds up there like it for all states and many counties. > I also found some old letters that my great uncle wrote my aunt, only mushy > love letters while they were courting, but they are now mine and I am so > happy to have found them on Ebay. > > Thanks, > Bonnie > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 2:01 PM > Subject: [PADAUPHI] Hershey book > > > > List, > > Please no e-bay commerical on the list. > > I tend to be sketical of ebay also since all the > > neagative news reports. > > If you do a search of e-bay fraud it turns up a lot. > > http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3078461/ > > Anyway it is a commerical site and against Rootsweb.com > > policy. > > > > Nadine > > List Admin > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== PADAUPHI Mailing List ==== > > To unsubscribe first check and see if you are getting list or digest mode > then e-mail [email protected] or > [email protected] with unsubscribe in message. > > > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.576 / Virus Database: 365 - Release Date: 1/30/04 > > > ==== PADAUPHI Mailing List ==== > http://www.rootsweb.com > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html

On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 10:51:34 -0800 (PST), you wrote: List, This is my position on e-bay. Posting by the seller: violation of AUP. Posting by someone unidentifiable (could be seller, could be not) who subs, posts, and runs: really rude, and inappropriate. Definitely something the admin is supported in trying to stop. Posting by a regular participant in the list of items on topic, not sold by them---that's up to the admin. In the latter case, if Sally is a regular participant on the list, and she occasionally finds items of real genealogical interest (books or what have you) pertaining to Wombat County that she isn't interested in buying (too pricey, already have, wrong end of county), that's not entirely off-topic for the Wombat County list, *if* the admin approves. IMO, however, it's not really the job of list subscribers to help eBay sellers sell their items, regardless of reason. It's just too easy for anyone who's really interested to go to eBay, set up personal notifications for "Wombat County", and find the items themselves if they want to. The function of RW lists (other than the handful of marketplace type lists) really isn't selling *anything*. Nadine List Admin >Bonnie, > >While reading your mail about E-Bay and you do have a good point am I correct >in believing you are a THARPE? If so, are you researching the family name and >from the Lawrence County, PA area? Do you have MAXWELLs and GARDNERs (sp) >mixed in with the THARPEs family name? > >Thanks! >Larry > > >--- Bonnie <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> I can understand why you do not want people advertising ebay items, but.... >> Alot of reports on Rootsweb being a fraud and selling our information to >> Ancestry.com but we still use it. >> >> I have used Ebay for over 4 years and never had I had a bad seller, i'm sure >> i'll run up on one oneday, although, if you look at the sellers feedback for >> the most part it will let you know what type of seller they are, honest or >> slow shipping, or not so honest. >> If you see photos on there that are family, you don't have to bid on them, >> right click and copy. >> If you see some old family bibles, most people have most of the information >> wrote out on the page. Take it and use it as a research source for your >> family history! >> Many free things on Ebay for genealogy researchers. >> They have old school yearbooks which I have found my grandfather in dating >> 1885, which I didn't even know they existed back then, but you can find >> hundreds up there like it for all states and many counties. >> I also found some old letters that my great uncle wrote my aunt, only mushy >> love letters while they were courting, but they are now mine and I am so >> happy to have found them on Ebay. >> >> Thanks, >> Bonnie >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 2:01 PM >> Subject: [PADAUPHI] Hershey book >> >> >> > List, >> > Please no e-bay commerical on the list. >> > I tend to be sketical of ebay also since all the >> > neagative news reports. >> > If you do a search of e-bay fraud it turns up a lot. >> > http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3078461/ >> > Anyway it is a commerical site and against Rootsweb.com >> > policy. >> > >> > Nadine >> > List Admin >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > ==== PADAUPHI Mailing List ==== >> > To unsubscribe first check and see if you are getting list or digest mode >> then e-mail [email protected] or >> [email protected] with unsubscribe in message. >> > >> >> >> --- >> Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. >> Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). >> Version: 6.0.576 / Virus Database: 365 - Release Date: 1/30/04 >> >> >> ==== PADAUPHI Mailing List ==== >> http://www.rootsweb.com >> > > >__________________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. >http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html > > >==== PADAUPHI Mailing List ==== >DAUPHIN COUNTY PA GEN-WEB site >http://www.maley.net/dauphin/ >