Cousins,
I hope all of you are having success finding connections with
cousins, and with finding your ancestors!! PLEASE read this entire
post!!
As you know, when our lists lost our home at Maiser because of a
spammer, RootsWeb generously stepped forward and offered us a new
home. Providing the machinery and time necessary to handle this
huge number of lists - in addition to the lists, etc., already
housed at RootsWeb - is and has been an expensive undertaking.
Brian and Karen at RootsWeb have provided this for us, but RootsWeb
is a membership organization - you have the opportunity to help by
joining. Your membership fee - $12 per year total for basic
membership, no matter how many lists you are on - would help offset
some of the expense entailed in providing the service. We are not
required to join, but I encourage you to do so. Please check this
URL -
http://www.rootsweb.com/ - to find out more about rootsweb.
If you use Juno and do not have net access, but would like to join,
the snailmail address is:
RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative
P.O. Box 6798
Frazier Park, CA 93222-6798
Please make sure your name and e-mail address are on the check!
Those of you who are not in the USA - please wait until they can
process credit cards; they should have that ready in a month or two
- American banks charge fees for currency conversions. I will let
you know when they tell me they can accept credit cards.
ALSO - if you have not sent me your snailmail address (PRIVATELY to
cch(a)netdoor.com, not to the list) for my personal file, please do
so, in case you go offline and a cousin needs to contact you. Use
the subject line SNAILMAIL.
If you change e-addresses, please send me a post to file, so that if
someone is looking for you at an old address, we will be able to
find you. Put your OLD e-address as the SUBJECT LINE.
I have not forgotten the list projects. A combination of the "down
time" between list homes and trying to get the lists adjusted to the
new home - and some personal health problems - interfered with and
took time from the "normal" time I spend working on the lists, but
the posts are still in the project mailboxes. They will all be
dealt with soon; I'm doing one this weekend.
PLEASE post any info you find about the surname/area/focus of your
list, whether it relates to your kin or not - chances are that it
will help one of your cousins on the list. Cousins on three of the
lists that I manage are doing this, and the cousins on these lists
have grown closer,and are really finding out a LOT about their
ancestors and connections -
YOU WILL GET FROM THE LIST WHAT YOU PUT INTO IT.
If you will ALL share your line and data, and also any bits of data
that you might find other than your own personal information, as
well as family stories that might help in connecting, and thoughts
on new methods of finding ancestors, these lists can be very
productive for ALL of us. If you have a resource from which you
are willing to do lookups, PLEASE post that information to your
cousins on the list.
My website is coming along. There will be a page for links to the
websites of cousins on each of the individual lists. Please send me
your URL in a post that has as the SUBJECT LINE -
URL - (surname)
So that it will not mix in with all the other mail and I can link it
off the page for the right list.
KING cousins - send your links to <LouPero(a)aol.com>, the KING List
Genealogist to whom I will link directly from my front page for that
surname. JORDAN cousins - please send yours to <jordan(a)digital.net>
who will link them off the JORDAN e-mail list website which will
also be linked directly off my front page. I also plan/hope to have
"automatic" sub and unsub buttons on each list page - if you like,
you will be able to unsub and resub there when you go on vacation if
you forget the commands/address, etc At this point, those buttons
and the links are all I plan to put on the list pages. I will also
have the boys' ahnentafels on the site somewhere, as well as GEN-MAT
links. Also, whenever there is a problem at the RootsWeb server and
the lists are down for a short period, I will post any info that I
receive about that to the site. The URL is
http://www2.netdoor.com/~cch but you will not see any of the
changes for a few days - my youngest son is doing this for me and he
has been busy with other commitments, but is working on it.
I have asked Karen (the listmaster at RootsWeb) to restrict access
to our list archives to you, the members of the individual lists, to
try to prevent spammers accessing our posts to get our e-addresses.
To access the archives, go to
http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/members/archives.html - I have not
tried to get archived posts, but understand it is not difficult. If
you have a problem doing it, let me know and I will either figure it
out or find someone who knows how to help.
REMEMBER - if you have a problem in connection with the list, post
to me privately - cch(a)netdoor.com - and use my name - CAROL - as the
subject line, to get my attention in my inbox.
Carol Carwile Head <cch(a)netdoor.com>
http://www2.netdoor.com/~cch
Listowner for the GEN-MAT and GEN-MAT-15 lists (new/used
genealogical materials), IMMI-GRAND (immigrant grandparents
research), RAN-CLAY
(east-central Alabama counties), and Agnew, Bailey, Barker, Bell,
Bowen, Bozeman, Cannon, Carwile, Cloud, Creel, Crowder, Couts,
DeVaughn, Ferguson, Forde, Gannon, Garrett, Grogan, Head,
Humphreys, Jordan,
King, Knotts, Lipscomb, Lynch, Page, Poole, Pursley, Roland, Sapp
and Thompson surname lists, now at RootsWeb.