Listers Please Note, There is absolutely nothing wrong in posting a message regarding the PIERCE, PEARCE, PEIRCE surname at any time on any of the above lists, or all of them. What IS wrong, is taking someone else's message and posting it somewhere the originator did not intend it to go, or they would have placed it there themselves. Please do not make this a bigger issue that is already has been made by other list Admins. I thought a simple note to the guilty party would be sufficient to keep it from happening again. I even went to the trouble of sending it to her personally but she wants to share it with the world so I am sharing my response to all three lists as well. What happens on the PIERCE list is none of my concern, but as Admin of the PEARCE and PEIRCE lists, reposting someone's message that was posted only on the PEARCE list, to another list without the authors consent, will not be tolerated and if it happens again, the guilty party will be barred from said list. Enough Said! Duane Pierce PEARCE & PEIRCE List Admin

After reading Webb Pierce's rules and regulations, I ask myself why is there more than one list for various spellings of PIERCE? I did not know that more than one such list existed. Having multiple lists makes it more difficult to post and to read messages that contain different spellings for the same surname. Published genealogies, NEHGR, LDS IGI and others group similar spellings together, and we all know that census takers couldn't spell very well anyway. I vote for sticking with one list for all variations of spelling of PIERCE, and since I started here I'll stay here. My two cents worth. Marty