I thought it was about time that I gave you a brief status report
on List happenings.
As of this morning, we now have 193 members - pretty good
for approximately 8 months of operation, I think.
I am really pleased with the way our List has functioned, only
one or two minor "flames" and they were extinguished by the
members directly concerned.
I have tried to avoid setting up operating rules and have kept
the List open to all comers. This does perhaps, make us a bit
more vulnerable to Spammers, but if that happens, we will
deal with it.
A couple of items that I want to discuss with you. I am going
to get a web page put together sometime in the near future.
The primary purpose of this initially, is to point to some of the
pages belonging to List members. Some of you folks have
some really good pages and I would like this to be a "visible"
list of their locations.
I have also thought about making names and addresses
of people (with their permission of course) who seem to have
concentrated their research in a localized area and who
would be willing to help or share their experience with other
List members. Wanda Pitt is an example of one of our
members who has put a good deal of effort into researching
Carroll family in an area and there are several others that
I have noticed.
I would appreciate your thoughts and suggestions if you
would send them to me privately.
Cal
phillipscalvin(a)prodigy.net