At 01:52 AM 11/18/1999 -0500, you wrote: >Hi everyone; > I also have quite a bit of information on New Hampshire locations to do >genealogical research......do you want me to post them ? > > I have received thanks from many of you for the Mass and Vermont >listings.......glad it helps ! > >Cynthia Hi, Cynthia: My personal opinion is I would VERY GREATLY prefer not to have NH information posted on the VTWINDSO list, unless the specific information being posted has a clear, specific, and significant connection to Windsor County, Vermont, genealogy (the subject of this list). I have nothing against the other of the twin state pair; my grandmother was born in New Hampshire. If you are suggesting that you might post a list of web locations that point to NH resources that are *known* to have a lot of connections with Windsor County, Vermont, then I might see that it would be appropriate on VTWINDSO-L. But I still wonder whether this is the best place to make the information known. Anyone who has found this list and subscribed to it has already demonstrated an ability to dig down to a specific resource and connect to it; if I need NH resources, I certainly won't be looking in the VTWINDSO-L archives to find them. The listowner has more to say on this subject than any one user, but I have found it useful to subscribe to focused lists (ROOTSWEB county lists, a few surname lists, and the list for my genealogy software) rather than the more general lists. I have found it necessary to unsubscribe from lists where the focus is lost or the subject too broad **FOR ME**, such as some of the eastern MA county lists or CT-RIVER-VALLEY-L. That does *not* make them bad lists, nor does it make the people on them less interesting or helpful; I am just not on them myself any more. I have long practice at the use of the delete key and the trashcan icon. It still takes too much time to sort through my incoming mail. Furthermore, in the case of the lists that keep focus I read every message. In one case, a message to VTWINDSO-L that seemed irrelevant to me by subject line turned out to be a query that I could *ANSWER*. I took that person's ancestry back more than a dozen documentable generations in multiple lines, and put her in contact with another researcher who was more interested than I am in her line of descent from our point of connection. That wouldn't have happened if I didn't have time to read the message, or of course if I weren't subscribed to the list at all. If we are going to have focused lists, let's keep them that way. Otherwise, why not just go back to everybody being subscribed to ROOTS-L? And that's my opinion. Darrell Darrell A. Martin formerly of Springfield, Vermont currently in exile in Addison, Illinois darrellm@sprynet.com