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Subject: Jon's message to Allan & Jerry
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 01:37:09 -0400

Hi Jon (and Jerry & Mike Poston):

Thanks for all the data on the lines that Jerry has brought to our attention
- I'm interested in the descendants as well. Would I be correct in assuming
that you will be including them in <Witney11.GED>, along with all the
supporting information about dates and places?? If so, I won't take the time
to put in just the names and have to go through that much more Match/Merge
later.

I wrote tonight to Michael (WhitneyMR), asking about how we are going to
transfer files, GEDCOMs, text attachments, etc., as Karen's effort tonight
obviously didn't work. Many lists do not allow for attachments, and I don't
know how we will be handling it. Maybe you, Joan, Jeanne and I will have to
keep an up-to-date list after all, so as to be able to send GEDCOMs, etc., to
all. Then each can choose to accept or delete them, depending on which set
of files they want to work with.

Mike, are you on <northeast-roots>? I wrote to the Cumberland County, ME
co-ordinator for the GenWeb project, asking about how to get to information
in the Vital Records of North Yarmouth, looking for Jabez Whitney. I got
back a note suggesting that I try NE-Roots. I also E-mailed several people
on the Franklin Co. GenWeb Query page that had postings about the Wheeler
family, asking if they had any further information about Abigail's husband,
and realized later that I had reinvented the circular question by asking you
for information in order to answer your question. I did discover that her
father was John Wheeler, a famous sailor with John Paul Jones.

Just curious about the above. Are either or both of Jerry and Jon using AOL
3.0? If so, did the <northeast-roots> above come out red on a cream
background?? I just started to try to use this version, and had never
*colored* anything in a message before. I guess it only works within AOL.
One thing I don't like (yet) is the fact that when I click on the file
cabinet above, I don't get the choice of dumping a message into my family
subdirectories of my word processor program. In order to do that, I have to
learn to use the *Save As...* under *File*.

Jon - will Witney11.GED be forthcoming in the near future? During the late
summer and early fall, while I was so busy with school stuff, I got way
behind in entering all the information that kept showing up in all the
Whitney traffic. If you have it all coming soon in your usual excellent
manner, I'll not bother trying to hunt back through all the messages (which I
did print, at least) to try and get caught up.

Happy Hunting, Keep in Touch, TTYL, and all the rest of that stuff. Allan

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