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From: Erin Bradford <>
Subject: Re: Another idea
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 21:15:10 -0800 (PST)


At 10:40 PM 2/10/98 -0500, you wrote:
> Rather than asking for submissions by forename, how about by
>locality? Like a certain county in a certain state? Or even just that
>state? Or a part of England or Ireland? To me that would bring together
>related people a lot quicker than the name John would. I am sure I could
>find a John in the Burke's Landed Gentry of Ireland book where there is a
>line of Hacketts, but what would that add--to type stuff out of a book that
>anyone can get access to?
> I would be excited to find other Hacketts from near Balydaly, Co.
>Offaly, Eire.
>
>Elizabeth W. Knowlton

I didn't read the whole message so as a note to you and to the others, not
EVERYone has access to that and to other books. Even if they did have
access, they might not be aware it has info that pertains to their line. If
you have to book, then by all means tell us who is in it. I know I am stuck
out here in Montana and I don't have access to that book except through
inter library loan which takes weeks, sometimes months to even get the book
then I can only use it for a week before i have to send it back and I can't
re-get it for another month! Don't assume that EVERYONE has access to
anything because in most cases that is wrong. Even with things on the
internet, even if someone has an email address, they still might not be able
to access homepages, so a good rule of thumb, especially for genealogy is
just don't assume:) hehe. Just thought I would let you (and the list know
this). If you have ANYTHING at all to contribute to the list, suck as stuff
from a book, census info, birth/marriage/death certificate info, family
bible info, wills, ANYTHING, then by all means post it to the list. Every
little bit helps.

Erin Bradford

Listowner for Barringer, Black, Bradford, Coventry, Eller, Hackett, and Kern
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/6106/genlinks.html (+800 genealogy
links)
http://www.angelfire.com/mt/listdex/index.html (Homepage for Black,
Bradford, Coventry, Hackett, and Kern email groups)

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