Hi Everyone, This is just a reminder that our list is a "public forum". That just means that the archive of our messages is open to anyone who wishes to search through it. We need to be careful of the information about living people that we include in messages to the list. I usually send dates and places for living people "off-list" to the person who needs the information for their files. When sending to the list, I remove the dates and places leaving only the names. The archives are available at: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/YELTON/ and http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=YELTON An example: When you use the search engine "Google" and type in your own name - you often find a URL to a message in the archives that you wrote to the list. That can be "good" and "bad". Good because it also helps us in our research for our ancestors and Bad because it can feel like an invasion of our privacy. Of course, with the Yelton surname, it's not "so" bad. There There just aren't that many people who would search that name unless there was some relationship they were looking for. These two paragraphs are in the welcome message each subscriber receives. Let me know if you think I should rephrase or update them in any way to make them clearer: "The purpose of this mailing list is to exchange genealogical information about the Yeltons, as well as related families (Tarvin, Garland, and Hinson are names that spring to mind, although there is a separate Garland mailing list). Please exercise good judgment in posting information about living people on this list, as messages will be archived on RootsWeb." "7.Copyrights. Any person sending a message to this list or to a list member retains the copyright to it. By sending the message, you grant to the list custodian, and to his heirs and assigns forever, permission to distribute copies of the message to other list members, **to store archival copies of the message, and to make the archival copies available to the Internet community at large.** You also grant to other list members the right to quote your message in part or in total as a part of their replies sent back to the list. List members must ask permission of the author of such messages to use or publish copyrighted material they have received through contacts on this list." It is always a surprise when I do a search using Google or Ancestry or Genealogy.com and my own name turns up. I Googled for my friend's married surname the other day for her and up popped her own name (married surname) as part of a couple of obits of her siblings. She was very surprised! Hope you are all having a great Fall, Iris