Northfield, NJ Sept. 8, 1997 Good afternoon to Shorb/Schorb cousins and researchers, [Please share this message with any cousins who may be more interested in family history / genealogy if you are not personal interested.] We've exchanged messages before regarding the SCHORB/SHORB family history. I want to let you know that there is now a "Shorb listserver" available for the exchange of messages between researchers. If you have any interest in the family history of SCHORB or SHORB, I think you would gain some new information by joining this FREE SERVICE hosted by www.rootsweb.com and myself. Among other things, this service will be sharing e-mail messages concerning the 12 known generations of SHORB in America. We will work to solve the mysteries of where families came from and where they went in past years. A LISTSERVER simply distributes incoming e-mail messages to all e-mail addresses that are SUBSCRIBED. To join the SHORB listserver, you can ask me to add you manually or you can do it yourself with the commands that follow below. Be aware that there is a MAIL MODE and a DIGEST MODE. The former will pass on each message as they arrive. The latter will collect the messages received that day and send them out as a single message with a series of "attachments". You can decide the method you prefer. 1. How to subscribe. Send a message to SHORB-L-request@rootsweb.com that contains (in the body of the message) the command subscribe and no additional text. 2. How to unsubscribe. Send a message to SHORB-L-request@rootsweb.com that contains (in the body of the message) the command unsubscribe and no additional text. 3. How to change to digest mode (several postings are combined and sent to you together as a single large message). There are two steps. First, send the command "unsubscribe" to SHORB-L-request@rootsweb.com to discontinue mail mode. Second, send the command "subscribe" to SHORB-D-request@rootsweb.com to start receiving digests. 4. How to change to NOMAIL mode. There is no formal NOMAIL mode. All you have to do is follow the directions above and unsubscribe when you want the messages to stop, and then when you want them to start again, simply subscribe again. 5. If you'd like to post a message so everyone on the mailing list receives it, just send it to SHORB-L@rootsweb.com. It will then be sent on to everyone in both mail and digest mode. You don't need to send it explicitly to both. And finally, we are collecting the family histories of every SHORB in America. If you have the names of any SHORB (or variations) ancestors to share, please forward them to me if you haven't done so already. There is a SCHORB/SHORB family web site on the internet at: http://www.jerseycape.com/users/schubert/shorb/shorb.htm Thank you for taking the time to read this. =================================================================== _____ Dave Schubert * Box 451 * Pomona NJ 08240 .---|_____ www.jerseycape.com/users/schubert/ ----+ _____ REPLY-TO: mailto:schubert1@usa.net `---|_____ http://www.jerseycape.com/users/schubert/surnames.htm