Sorry I'm a bit late adding my bit to this. There was a question in this
list recently asking for info on a large house in the Chepstow area. I
offered to nip along and send the lister a photo of the house and check it
out in the usual places of reference.
She then informed me that she actually lives in the house, and was just
after information about the place. So why didn't she say so in the original
email?
A 'sig file' stating where you are located would be so useful. Interesting
too!
Spring is coming (Ihope)
Bryan
From border Monmouthshire, between the Severn bridges...
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----- Original Message -----
From: "les lewis" <llewis(a)one.net.au>
To: <MONMOUTHSHIRE-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 2:12 AM
Subject: Re: [Mon] Re: Signatures.
Hello Honor
I agree with you its only courteous to list your name and its not so
impersonal when you do
I also add our weather or area as we are on the other side of the world.
We have just had a heat wave 28 to 46 deg for 2 weeks now we are having
a storm had 7 inches of rain in 7 days
Searching for George LEWIS 1850-1870
Regards
Les LEWIS
Luddenham
Australia
Honor Humphries wrote:
> I also agree with Glyn. If listers don't wish to add
> their surname at the end of a message that's fine, but
> it helps a lot if they at least put the country they're
> emailing from. It can have a bearing on how a reply
> is worded and what sort of advice is given. It's no
> good advising someone to look up records at, for
> example, the record office in Cwmbran or Newport
> Library if they live in the USA or Australia. Also,
> procedures and resources that are very well known
> to us may be completely alien to people overseas.
> I'm sure we've all replied to requests for help not
> knowing whether to include every little detail and
> risk coming across as very condescending simply
> because we don't know where the persons lives and
> how much they already know about research facilities
> in Britain.
> We could all help each other a little bit more if we
> knew where we were all coming from.
> Honor Humphries,
> in Monmouthshire, S.Wales, U.K.
> hhumphries(a)grenville63.freeserve.co.uk
>
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