Amen & well said. Bill Mc Afee (if you're looking for me, try the 48160 ZIP in the 734 AC! ----- Original Message ----- From: <SusiCP@aol.com> To: <VA-Harrison-Monongalia-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 12:54 AM Subject: Re: [VA-Har-Mon] Dangerous Info I think not > What a shame that you are all so paranoid. LET me share a story with you. > > When my Parent and Uncle were small family split. For 50 years family hunted > for family. MY Uncle had unlisted numper was not in phone book. MY DAD moved > to area family was not aware of. When I started genealogy I was able to get > permission to advertize my Uncle's name on the web. Within weeks we had > calls from family looking for his generation. His name was different and > harder to track my DAD's was very common and not easy to find for name > purpose though we were looking for DAD's Aunts, Uncles and his Father since I > was about 8 years old. Yes we found his DAD when I was 11/12. I got to meet > a special human because DAD and Uncle knew they had family. Dad was oldest, > Uncle almost youngest so he learned most from DAD. > > We learned family had come to our town looking for Uncle and his name because > he was not in phone book no one ever found him, til many many years later. HE > missed three cousins he knew when small by having an unlisted number. The > wife came to visit 2 weeks after we found each other. She told us how they > hunted so many times in San Diego for my Uncle. :<( My Uncle cried that he > had not changed his unlisted to listed after learning family spent so much > time and money looking for him. > > I located my Dad's cousin within the state and other cousins in states near > us. > MY Uncle got to meet these cousins my DAD had already passed on. > > So go ahead and remove your name and address, its like a phone book. Then > you might just as well close the books on your genealogy for your future > generations and stop what your doing for its all for naught. > > When I joined the local society they didn't want there names on the surname > file. > I said,"HOw can people contact you if you don't leave a name and address?" > They looked at me sorta dumb and said," O, we didn't think of that." Our > parania is going to > to destroy our research. Some day there will be no phone book, only on line > and then people again will fight the same problem we have today. NO ADDRESS, > NO PHONE, NO NAME. > I use the white pages to find same last name kin, it was one of the first > things I was taught in the old school before computers. We use the old ones > today for people for census in the 1850's and up and sometimes before. Think > before you function. > >