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From: Colleen Pustola <>
Subject: [AUTEN] SUNDAY MORNING COFFEE
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 01:37:32 -0600


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Today's topics include:

1. Welcome to new cousins
2. On posting messages
3. Trivia from the American Civil War
4. Let's remember our cousins


TO OUR NEWEST COUSINS ~~

On behalf of the entire family, I'd like to extend a most hearty welcome
to those cousins who came into the family fold this past week. We are
very glad to have you with us and hope you'll stay and remain a part of
our online family. As soon as you're comfortable with us and the list,
please send in your list-surname lines so we can all see how we're
related to you. We do not have a fancy format for sending in records or
queries to the list. Post as many as you wish! If the data has anything
to do with our list-surname ancestors that might help someone, please
feel free to post it. Every scrap of information is appreciated.

ON POSTING MESSAGES

With everyone returning to the family after their summer haitus, it's
important to remind our newbies and novices of some query-posting
pointers:

1.) Don't type your message all in capital letters. It is very
difficult to read a message so-styled, and in netiquette it's considered
yelling.

2.) Give your message a subject line proper to the material in your
message. Subject lines are your introduction lines and capture a
reader's attention. Make yours count! If you're not sure of how to
create a subject line watch what everyone else is saying in theirs, and
do the same. Or, you can contact me with your material and I'll give
you a couple ideas <>.

3.) When posting queries, please give as much information on your lines
as possible to help us identify your ancestors. Names, dates, and
places are critically important! Give as much of that information as you
can. Also, please proofread your query before posting it to clean up
grammatical and punctuation errors that often make it difficult to
understand what you're saying.

4.) **EXTREMELY, EXTREMELY IMPORTANT:** Please... DO NOT post
information about living people in your messages. This is for your
protection and that of your loved ones. Identity thieves are always
happy to assume an identity if they can get enough of the right
information on your family, and we genealogists are their favorite
targets! Keep in mind, most credit card companies have your mother's
maiden name as your password. Protect yourself and don't identify her!
In addition, we don't research the living, so we really don't need to
see their information anyway.

5.) How long has it been since you last posted? Remember, new cousins
are finding us everyday. You should try to post at least once a month.

6.) Have you posted and not gotten a response? Try re-wording your
last post and add more information. Perhaps nobody can identify your
lines from the information you've already given. I might not descend
from your great grandmother directly, but from one of her siblings, and
I also might not know that person's parents. Only your posting those
siblings will help me identify and tie into you.

7.) Another important point...

Inline Cousin #1: "I'm a lurker, simply monitoring the list looking for
my ancestor, Quasi Doe. Nobody's posted anything about my lines and I
need to trim the number of messages I'm receiving, so I'll unsubscribe
this one."

Inline Cousin #2: "I'm brand new, scared to death to post. I want to
find someone who's related to Quasi Doe. How do I do it? Where do I
send to? I've been sitting here for several months now (lurking) and I
still haven't seen anybody researching my line."

...And so it goes. A lost opportunity for two inline-cousins because
neither one posted and now, one is gone from the list. Don't let this
happen to you.

TRIVIA FROM THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR

I found this little goodie at
<http://www.genealogybulletin.com/archives/HTML/etc70.html>; while
surfing the Web earlier this week. I thought you all might be
interested in reading it.

According to a tidbit from genealogical society bulletins, 78 percent of
the Union Army in the Civil War was comprised of lads 15 to 18 years
old. Data gleaned from government records reveals figures that may
surprise you. Here are the statistics from the total enlistment of
Northern soldiers during the Civil War:

Age Number of Personnel

10 ............ 25
11 ............ 34
12 ............225
13 ............380
14 ...........1602
15 ........104,987 (3.5%)
16 ........231,051 (8.0%)
17 ........884,981 (28.0%)
18 ......1,158,434 (38.5%)
19-22 .....617,511 (20.5%)
22-44 ......52,696
45+ .....Not given

How old was your ancestor when he served in the Civil War? Keep his age
in mind as you see portrayals or read battle accounts. How would your
17-year-old son fare?

LET'S REMEMBER OUR COUSINS WHO CAN'T GET OUT

With the start of school, we begin to settle back into our homes. For
those of you still lucky enough to be able to continue researching
outside the home, please remember we have cousins who are shut-ins and
watch for those morsels of data posted to the list. If, during your
searches at libraries, archives, historical societies, and cemeteries
you should come across our surnames, please... won't you extract the
data to share with us here? Variant spellings are very welcome, too!
With your added material they just might be able to tie-in to another
cousin, and it could be YOU! :)

After all, it's family ... and that's what we're all about.

Thank you for allowing me to spend this time with you today. It's an
interlude I truly enjoy. I wish each of you a week filled with health,
productivity, fun, and above all, filled with love.


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