Steve Privett wrote: > > This mail list is currently set so that when anyone hits the reply > button it goes directly to the sender and not the list. This is the > recommendatin for a list with many many posts and many more people than > we have in an effort to reduce some traffic. > > I have been thinking of changing it so that responses are also sent to > the list population to encourage more discussion and also as an > archiving tool. All of the messages posted to the list are archived and > searchable, so as a query re. Elizabeth Pennington was made, if I change > the default, then we all can see the responses and also they will be > archived for furture research... > > My posting regarding Rachel Pennington Beeson is a great example... The > LDS records show her as a descendant of Isaac Pennington, yet there has > been extensive research efforts by Carrie Beth Lowe that tend to dispute > that with what I consider very credible conclusions. By archiving her > response, it makes the efforts of her research accessable by others and > does not perpetuate the apparent error in the LDS records. > > Any thoughts or comments?? Based on the responses I get, I will either > leave it as it is, or change it so that replies are typically sent to > the entire list. So PLEASE send me your thoughts and feel free to post > them to the list for open discussion. > -- > Steve Privett > mailto:eqretrodr@earthlink.net > http://home.earthlink.net/~eqretrodr/index.html I believe that is a good idea for every one to post to the list, I really do prefer that better, unless it is a private matter.. You might be interested in the Pennington Pedgrees Magazine. I belong to Group IV, but you might find your Elizabeth Pennington through them also, if not here..Jenell