Hi Ratliff-Ls, I'm from the Luke/Redding/ Line and the List has been very helpful for us. And please keep it working. BUT, there is a practice I don't yet comprehend. What is the value of being on this list, and then privately emailing a single other person some portion of a Ratliff family Tree? I'm not trying to criticize, just understand. The Archives of our Lists have been very helpful to my family, enabling us to find other connecting lines just by searching the Archives of these Lists, such as the Ratliff-L Archives: (at http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/surname/r/ratliff.html) A private emailing could deprive someone who might be looking for the same family that is being discussed privately, perhaps even years from now. It may be, probably is, a feeling that a poster feels that his or her line or information isn't important enough to the rest of us to post, or possibly don't want to clutter the List. It has been many years since anyone at RootsWeb has suggested ways to save space on the servers. These new servers have much space avail. I would respectfully like to suggest that we consider any Ratliff family Gen, other than living persons, as potentially helpful to someone in our 'family', and post it. If there is a policy to the contrary, I've never heard about it for the 13 or so RootsWeb surname Lists I host. I'm sure it is not selfishness that is prompting this - rather an attempt to not 'bother' the rest of us w/what seems like a limited interest post. Please, I would very much to see all Ratliff posts, other than living persons, so we could analyze potential connections to 'our' Ratliffs. Thanks for your attention, Barry >From: toni8466@yahoo.com >Reply-To: RATLIFF-L@rootsweb.com >To: RATLIFF-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [RATLIFF] Re: Mariah Ratliff >Date: 9 May 2002 16:07:03 -0600 > >This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > >Surnames: Ratliff, Kuykendall, >Classification: Query > >Message Board URL: > >http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/RGCBAEB/900.1 > >Message Board Post: > >Gina, >I also have information about Mariah Ratliff and all of her marriages. I >will e-mail you with the rest of the story. > > >==== RATLIFF Mailing List ==== >If you'd like to search the List archives, please visit >http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=RATLIFF > _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com