Hi Colleen and others, Just had to respond to this query. A mailing list that has too strict of requirements may not be very productive. That is my opinion. I belong to many mailing lists and see all kinds of things come through them, some apply, some don't but sometimes the info is of interest to some of the people and genealogy includes many things and that lost ancestor can be found is some of the strangest ways. I don't know of a mailing list but do know of a wonderful web page dedicated the New England Indians. <A HREF="http://users.javanet.com/~smartin/">Click here: New England Indians Home Page</A> http://users.javanet.com/~smartin/ You can find all mailing lists hosted by Rootsweb on this page. <A HREF="http://www.rootsweb.com/~maillist/">Click here: User Mailing Lists Hosted by RootsWeb</A> http://www.rootsweb.com/~maillist/ Happy Hunting, Sue Gardner Leominster, MA Team Captain of the <A HREF="http://members.aol.com/SueG476/Project.html">Pie rce Project - New England/New York</A> http://members.aol.com/SueG476/Project.html In a message dated 10/20/1999 1:24:57 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > > In case you're wondering how this pertains, my Pearce > line married into a Cherokee line. :-) > > I recently subscribed to the ITROOTS-L list at rootsweb. > I posted my Cherokee rolls/list query to the ITROOTS list at > the same time that I posted here. It is a list which is allegedly > for NatAm genealogy research). I posted it to 3 lists, because > it pertains to ALL 3 LISTS. > > I got back a very strange, rather snotty message from > the ITROOTS-L list owner. She told me that my query, > about web sites for certain Native American census, > was inappropriate for her mailing list. She says, > unless a message pertains to NOTHING other than the > ITROOTS list, it can't be posted there. > > She would have been REALLY ticked off if she'd known I > posted the query to a couple of newsgroups, as well. ;-) > > Among other things, she says: > > >>I am VERY concerned about another thing-- your message below. One of the > >>rules on Indian Territory Roots is that if the message is not important > >>enough to send it to our list ALONE, then we don't want it! > > She went into greater detail (read tirade), but none of the > spheel was more logical than the above. > > I can't think of a single topic that pertains to that > list ONLY. What a strange rule. > > Does anyone know of an American Indian mailing list, which is > genuinely there to help the Native American genealogy researcher?? > ITROOTS is obviously not designed for that purpose. > > :-) > acp > ******* "Too many stupid people. Too few comets." ******** > *********************************************************************** > * A. Collene Pearce * Austin, TX, USA * > * email: [email protected] * http://www.jumpnet.com/~collene * > *********************************************************************** >