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From: "floyd howard" <>
Subject: Re: [NYDELAWA-L] SAMPUBCO
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 18:14:08 -0400
References: <24.4e75c20.264d8183@aol.com> <391C481C.12ED9056@global2000.net>


I agree with you Joyce.

----- Original Message -----
From: Joyce Riedinger <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, May 12, 2000 2:06 PM
Subject: Re: [NYDELAWA-L] SAMPUBCO


> Not to belabor the issue, but, I set the LIST up to focus on Delaware
> County and the posting in question was a rather broad advertisement (not
> indicated as such) of his business. Because many of our volunteers spend
> hours upon hours keying this same sort of data in for free, I simply
> have chosen to not use our list for advertising purposes. It is our
> choice, as volunteers, to not charge for what we key in and it is my
> choice to ask that advertising not be done on the list.
>
> Joyce
>
>
> wrote:
> >
> > I respect Joyce and all her hard work. She has the best rootsweb site
of
> > any. However, I appreciate SAMPUBCO's post to the list. I was able to
search
> > for free dozens of county will indexes and found several wills I had
been
> > looking for and got a few leads. It saved me the time and expense from
> > ordering the indexes from the FHC or traveling to NY. I would rather see
a so
> > called commercial post that allows me a free search of indexes and the
choice
> > to order the will or follow up on my own then some of the off topic
posts I
> > have seen. I really see no difference in this service than the
discussung
> > fees for National Archives Searches
> >
>
> --
>
>
> Delaware County Listowner
> Greene County Listowner
>
> Joyce Riedinger, Coordinator
> Delaware County NYGenWeb Site
> http://www.rootsweb.com/~nydelawa
>
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