In a message dated 3/30/2002 5:06:46 AM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > X-Message: #1 > Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 16:25:20 +0100 > From: "Stephen Stec" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Subject: [VAFairfa] RE: VAFAIRFA-D Digest V02 #53 > content-class: urn:content-classes:message > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="US-ASCII" > > Hi -- Is there some way to convince people that not every list with the > name Fairfax in it refers to the Fairfax family? Here are some better > bets for people interested in the Fairfax surname: > > http://genforum.genealogy.com/fairfax/ > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=surnames.fairfax > > ______________________________ > > X-Message: #2 > Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 11:14:17 -0500 > From: Jeff Hume-Pratuch <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Subject: RE: [VAFairfa] RE: VAFAIRFA-D Digest V02 #53 > Content-Type: text/plain > > I'd like to second that motion. This list was set up to discuss Fairfax > COUNTY research, not the Fairfax family. Rootsweb sponsors a Fairfax FAMILY > list -- join by sending a message with "subscribe" in the body to > [email protected] Any posts about people with the surname > Fairfax, or collateral relations of the Fairfaxes, or public responses to > private e-mails from people who are researching Fairfaxes, should go to > that > list. Not here. > > --Jeff Hume-Pratuch > Dear List, I think it is great that there are lots of Fairfax folks out there and that they make contact. However, I heartily agree with Jeff and Stephen's comments above. This list is for Fairfax COUNTY searchers. The Fairfax CLAN (with respect to the List) would do better to communicate directly or use the suggestions provided above. Hey, List Mom, anything you can do about this? Here's hoping. Dottie Engemann