Alissa: >>*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.* Exactly. She has spent so much time, it should be available to everyone. The people at Rootsweb and USGenweb both like to put things online *themselves* - all she would have to do is tell them what she's got, and send it to them! *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.* > That's because you know they are there! If people know the names are there, and what months the names are under, great. 99.9% of all people doing genealogy are Not on this list. Would they know to look here for newspaper archives, in a complete form? No. However, they might look on the Lancaster County Rootsweb site. Say I want to search the name Albright. I have to go *month by month* to do that on the search. OR I search and 11,676 names come up. (Or something to those numbers..) Maria's emails cannot be filtered if you receive the list in Digest form. Those people have to scroll through and through and through to get to another email they might want, because the format for Rootsweb list mail does not allow them to click on a title and skip. Lynn

Lynn, Maybe it isn't so obvious how to search the mailing list archives. I'm including a link. I just searched for your Albright and only had 113 hits. With more info you can whittle it down further. And there are abstracts so you don't have to read each email completely. You are searching the specific mailing list archives rather than rootsweb or the message boards. Here is the link: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/search I didn't consider the issue with the digest format because I don't use it. I find it easier to just delete the individual emails rather than have a digest because that way I can save the ones easily and know what it is about from the subject. Everyone has their own way of organizing though and I didn't think of that. Sorry. Alissa On 10/30/2010 8:55 PM, ltguidetti wrote: > Alissa:>>*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.* > > Exactly. She has spent so much time, it should be available to everyone. > The people at Rootsweb and USGenweb both like to put things online > *themselves* - all she would have to do is tell them what she's got, and > send it to them! > > *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.* >> > That's because you know they are there! If people know the names are > there, and what months the names are under, great. 99.9% of all people > doing genealogy are Not on this list. Would they know to look here for > newspaper archives, in a complete form? No. However, they might look on > the Lancaster County Rootsweb site. > > Say I want to search the name Albright. I have to go *month by month* to do > that on the search. OR I search and 11,676 names come up. (Or something to > those numbers..) > > Maria's emails cannot be filtered if you receive the list in Digest form. > Those people have to scroll through and through and through to get to > another email they might want, because the format for Rootsweb list mail > does not allow them to click on a title and skip. > > Lynn > > ------------------------------- > 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: 271.1.1/3228 - Release Date: 10/30/10 14:34:00 >