Since not everyone has access to adding data to a web site, perhaps Maria could give permission to the webmaster of the Lancaster PA web site to post the information she has so graciously been extracting for our benefit. That way, people who may not know to check back issues of emails would have access to the data. ...Just a thought. Karen In a message dated 10/30/2010 11:46:03 A.M. Central Daylight Time, alissa.booth@comcast.net writes: Lynn, I agree with you that the email you received off list was rude. I also agree that having it on a website would be beneficial. But I know several people that can email and not create a web page. Nor do they have the time. I appreciate the time anyone spends to share information. I look through all of Maria's emails when I get a chance. Just this morning I found my husband's 3rd great grandmother's maiden name. And I wasn't expecting to do genealogy but just browsing email on an off moment. What luck. I disagree that searching through the Roots Web emails takes a long time. You can easily go to the list archives on Roots Web and search the surname for any occurrence of your names of interest. It took just a few seconds. I just did it this morning after finding the maiden name to see if I had missed any posts on this surname I didn't know about previously. Also, if you or anyone else is not interested in reading Maria's emails, it is very easy to create a rule or filter in your email program that will automatically delete her emails without you ever reading them. If you don't know how to do this, feel free to email me off-list and I can help. This to me seems to be the best possible solution since those who are interested can continue to read them and those that aren't won't have to manually delete them every time. Plus, anyone who missed anything can easily search the archives. I hope we can agree to disagree and get back to helping each other with Lancaster genealogy. Alissa On 10/30/2010 11:35 AM, ltguidetti wrote: > I received the email below in my mailbox. The sender supposedly sent it to > the Lancaster Rootsweb list, however, I received it as a direct mail TO me, > and I have not seen it on the list, nor any list emails "commending" her on > her post. My response is below that. I do not know the person who sent > it, she does not know me, how dare she email me with such an ignorant email. > > FYI, MY tree is one of the few to actually qualify for membership in the > First Families/GSP COMMONWEALTH AND COLONY era (to 1748) -- so if you want > to dispute the validity of what I have spent the last 25 years doing, then > go right ahead. GSP would disagree. MY information is free to all, > online for all, and it's all in one place, so people don't have to dig for > it like I had to. Free to all is the way history should be. > > Rootsweb archives pages are FREE. You can develop a list of all these > names, and put the information on it, so it will be easily accessible to > ALL, not just members of this list or who know that they would actually FIND > the info on this list. > > Lynn > > > On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 9:33 PM,<halltall@aol.com> wrote: > I am sorry you do not understand the usefulness of what Maria is doing for > Lancaster co PA records. > > Sheis doing a great service for genealogy, posting this information. So it > doesn't apply to you? Delete key is easy to hit. I would be interested to > know what your research work is - do you read microfilm? DO you look at > original records anywhere, visit any libraries or archives? Do you expect > to get your entire family tree laid out for you on some magic day, right > there on your computer? Genealogy doesn't work that way. There are people > who are using this material; those for whom it doesn't apply can just delete > it. Personally I save it to a file because you never know when you will > discover an entire new family line for yourself. > > I can't believe anyone *seriously pursuing family history* would actually > complain about original records being posted for free on line. Spam, it's > not! > > I'm more likely to complain about the millions of undocumented names in > thousands of family trees littered all over the web and unquestioningly > accepted and copied. When someone is selfless enough to do this kind of > posting, it's golden. It's easy enough to delete what doesn't interest you > (for now). > > > On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 10:54 AM,<halltall@aol.com> wrote: > >> I DO understand the usefulness. However, it belongs on a* website*, and >> not in email. Sorry if you don't like that. >> >> For someone to have to go search ALL the Rootsweb list emails for these >> will take a VERY long time, because they will have to go through more than >> one month, and it gets worse the more names you have to search. One >> website: One Edit/Find and you haven't wasted anyone's time. >> >> I have been doing serious research for over 25 years, please do not tell me >> what I should or should not do. As a matter of fact, *MY tree is on >> Rootsweb, FREE for everyone to see. I do that because I want to HELP >> others. * Not because I want them to have to go through what I have had to >> do the last 25 years to get all 10,000 names on my tree. THAT is selfless. >> >> >> You need to learn some ettiquette and not email people off list complaining >> about them. This is probably the most rude letter I have ever received. >> >> >> >> Wow! >> >> That was a copy of the posting I made to the list. No one else thought it >> was rude and several commended it. >> >> Good luck in your research. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PALANCAS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 9.0.864 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/3227 - Release Date: 10/30/10 02:34:00 > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PALANCAS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message