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. > > > > > > > > >