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From: AmyAnn <>
Subject: Re: [CARIBBEAN-L] W.Indies Surname Interest List
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 1998 21:12:27 -0400


I attempted to subscribe at the same time I subscribed to this list - less
than a week ago. And I have had no reply at all come to think of it.
Thanks for the web site info.

AmyAnn

At 08:04 PM 7/7/98 -0400, you wrote:
>No doubt most subscribers to this Caribbean genealogy list already know of
>Vaughn Royal's excellent and helpful WEST INDIES SURNAME INTEREST LIST,
>which has put many of us in touch with each other, in connection with this
>or that specific surname of mutual interest.
>
>For those of you who may still be 'in the dark' I urge you to go to
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>http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/vroyal/homepage.htm
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>and do some reading.
>
>I suggest most people click, straight-away, on the DOWNLOAD MISSING PIECES
>link, download ALL of them, and archive this information,properly.
>I have my reasons for suggesting that the beginner take this route, rather
>than subscribing via Email as is also offered: - see my reasons below.
>
>Since I'm on the subject, I should like to elicit responses from any
>persons who may have tried to contact Vaughn Royal within the last few
>months for the purpose of subscribing,submitting updates or any other
>reason.
>
>Those of us who are long-time subscribers to Vaughn's List know him for his
>detailed attention to all aspects of maintaining his intricate and involved
>list and his prompt up-dates.
>Vaughn's last update was Issue No.12, of Feb.1st,1998, with plans to update
>around late March,1998.
>
>Both myself and a fellow researcher have sent Vaughn several Emails for one
>reason or another, and have received no return/bounced mail nor any
>response.
>This is not the norm. for Vaughn Royal.
>
>We are now left with no option but to fear the worst.
>To be perfectly frank, we suspect that Vaughn Royal is either SERIOUSLY
>ill, or may have succumbed to something like a suddenly-fatal heart attack.
>
>Please, ..ANYone.. if you have any news of the man, or similar
>experiences regarding attempts at Email (or other?) correspondence with
>him, this forum is the best place to add to what has been already discussed.
>
>Assuming the worst,I would like to suggest that, before his (several) pages
>are dismantled by Compuserve, anyone not already in possession of Vol.12 go
>to the above URL and download it in its entireity, and archive this
>valuable genealogical-contact information.
>
>It may be the last such information, unless someone takes over the job.
>
>...................
>
>Regards,
>David Hunt.
>
>43,Rendezvous Ridge,
>Christ Church,W8
>BARBADOS,
>West Indies.
>
>+(246)-427-0146
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