I have Added Robert's name to our list... Don ---------- From: Robert Earl Woodham Sent: Saturday, May 17, 1997 3:42 PM To: Don Sasser Subject: Sasser family Don, I have been meaning to contact you since I got online recently. I also found the Sasser discussion group recently but had computer problems that shut me down for a while. Then yesterday I read in the Atlanta paper that the fellow at Indiana University who was in charge of the genealogy discussion groups had to shut it down because of a mass mailing by an advertising company using the genealogy discussion groups, making it appear that the mailing was coming from the university or a non-profit group. It started when a business in Atlanta sent in a money order to the advertising company, which in turn sent out more than 50,000 emails through the genealogy discussion groups (somehow). The article quoted the guy who is head of the USGenWeb Project in which he called the forced shutdown a catastrophe because more than 20,000 people a day were using the combined surname discussion groups. Do you know anything about this and is the Sasser discussion group a part of the Indiana University program? I WOULD like to join the discussion group. Gathering family history was the sole purpose of my getting on the internet. I also believe you MAY have ended up with some incomplete data. It appears from the way you phrased it "William Henry Sasser was born 1745 and came to America (North Carolina)."--that you believe he was not born in America but came he later as an immigrant. Apparently our family was already in America by the year 1724. And in all likelyhood, you won't find a middle name for the vast majority of ordinary folks for that period; middle names didn't become fashinable until the 1800's. Have you seen a document with William's and John's middle names? I want to begin a continuing correspondence with you (and other Sasser kinfolks as well). I promise to keep in touch. Got to go to bed now...work at night. Robert Earl Woodham Columbus, Georgia ------------------------------