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From: "Roma Draper" <>
Subject: Please read, vital info :-))
Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 03:38:08 +0100


Hello to you all, especially new subscribers.

Yes I am burning midnight!!? oil, woken up by the inebriated
generation!!

Have you ascertained what English, or Irish, etc County your ancestors
came from ? or would you like to ascertain which?

Rootsweb are host to not only Country, County & regional mailing lists
but hundreds of individual surname lists.
For instance I am also the listowner of the long (two years)
established, WESSEX-PLUS mailing list covering ten Counties in the South
West of England where many of your ancestors hailed from.

If any of you have read Thomas Hardy's novels you will know WESSEX was
an ancient Kingdom, encompassing most of the English, Counties below.

Berkshire, Devon, Dorset (Poole!!) Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Isle of
Wight ( which was part of Hampshire & is listed on LDS (Mormon) IGI for
Hampshire), Oxfordshire, Somerset & of course Wiltshire, where I was
born & have returned to after some 4 years with British Army in Germany
& living Australia for 25 years.

If any of you would like to subscribe to my WESSEX-PLUS mailing list,
may I suggest if you have not established which County above your
ancestors came from, you Request I subscribe you in Digest mode, this
means you are not bogged down with messages each time you download BUT
receive, once per day, a digest of that days posted messages.

Can I also suggest you Bookmark <http://www.rootsweb.com/~maillist/>;
scroll down & click on the Countries, ie, England, Ireland, Scotland, &
Wales, & of course The Channel Islands of Jersey & Guernsey. There you
will find lots of individual County Lists, Regional List's such as mine
& two large list's for Surnames, which are used by hundreds of people,
who have not established where there ancestors came from or are doing a
one name study. 1, SURNAMES-BRITAIN, which covers the countries of
England, Scotland & Wales & 2, SURNAMES IRELAND, these were split last
year due to huge numbers of people tracing ancestors in Ireland but not
rest of UK & visa versa. You should also bookmark John Fuller's Web
Page, which covers every mailing list Worldwide, ie, not just hosted by
Rootsweb. < http://members.aol.com/johnf14246/gen_mail.html>;

I would also urge you to Bookmark the Genuki (web page), = Genealogy
United Kingdom & Ireland on:
<http://www.genuki.org.uk/>; click on "Information Related To All ---- &
then the area you are interested. in.

If you would like to subscribe to my WESSEX-PLUS list, PLEASE state!! 1.
I noted your message on NFLD list & 2. Whether you want me to subscribe
you in Single list mode or Digest mode.

I hope you will learn lots on how to trace FH in my/your? area &
surrounding counties & who knows you may just link up with someone
tracing same lines.

Look forward to seeing you.

Roma
Listowner NFLD-LAB & WESSEX-PLUS mailing lists.
Wiltshire
England.

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