Sounds great to me. I vote yes. And welcome. Elaine At 06:12 PM 2/4/01 -0800, you wrote: >Hi everyone! Thank you so much for the nice words of welcome I have >received from so many of you. > >I have been on the SHAW list for a few years now, but under different >email addresses. I haven't yet found my elusive SHAW family, but am still >working on it! :) I also administer one other list on Rootsweb. > >I like the way the SHAW list has been running, and see no reason to make >any changes at the present time... with one possible exception. I have >been considering having [SHAW-L] put in the subject line on all the list >mail so we can see at a glance which list the mail originated from. My >thought was that this would be a help to the folks (like myself) who are >on many different lists. Is that agreeable to the majority of list >members? If there is general agreement, I will make that change. If not, >we will keep it the way it is now. > >We will continue with the 'Country of the Week" that Shirley started. If >there's no great objection, we will be going back to the 'State of the >Week' once we have finished the countries. I for one noticed people >posting to the state queries who I had never seen post information to the >list before. I figure that by this time, people may have added some new >tidbit of information to their genealogy, and it would be nice to have >that information posted to the list. Does anyone have any other ideas? >Those of us who are still looking KNOW that the information we seek exists >out there somewhere...and it is just a matter of finding it. > >Much gratitude to Shirley Scott for making this such a great list, where >everyone can post their SHAW genealogy information without fear of being >flamed. That tradition will continue. Many thanks, Shirley! I will try not >to mess up what you have accomplished here too badly. > >Anne Ward >California (home of the rolling blackouts:) > > > > >==== SHAW Mailing List ==== > > > >============================== >Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: >Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. >http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com