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From: Roy Stockdill <>
Subject: An idea to calm Yorksgen
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 07:25:56 -0500


Jenny Burn wrote.....

>>Maybe you could just use your Reply button instead of Reply to All and
write to the individual personally informing them of your Website and carry
on any
lengthy discussion in private.
They will be much more informed and ready for discussion/questions, once
they have
visited your site and would save you an awful lot of time.<<

THAT is a point, but you will equally find many people who prefer
genealogical information to be given to all and debates about research
techniques to be carried on in public, since they like to hear the view of
more than one person and to gather an accumulation of opinion so that they
can best arrive at an informed judgement.

Roy Stockdill
Editor, The Journal of One-Name Studies
The Stockdill Family History Society (Guild of One-Name Studies, FedFHS)
STOCKDILL PREST YELLOW BOLTON WORSNOP
GIBSON MIDGLEY BRACEWELL SHACKLETON BRADLEY MOODY in Yorkshire North &
West Ridings
MEAD YOUNG in Somerset, Wiltshire & Gloucestershire
Web page of the Stockdill Family History Society:-
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/roystock
Web page of the Guild of One-Name Studies:- http://www.one-name.org
”Never ask a man if he comes from Yorkshire. If he does he will tell you.
If he does not, why humiliate him?" - Canon Sydney Smith (scholar and
humorist 1771-1845)

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