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Tips |
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Welcome!
WELCOME to the WALSH Family Discussion List. This is a FREE discussion area for
anyone who has an interest in Genealogy or History related to the WALSH
family.
The Basics
- If you need help, contact the list administrator at [email protected] (do not use this address to subscribe or unsubscribe)
- You must subscribe
to the list before you can post a genealogy message.
*** see Subscription Instructions
to send subscribe or unsubscribe commands***
- Once you have subscribed you may post a genealogy
message to this list.
Rules
- This list is for the discussion of Genealogy and History, primarily
regarding WALSH and related families. Discussion of migration patterns,
immigration, heraldry, historical sketches, Walsh settlements, census data,
wills, family Bibles, vital records, web sites, etc. as relates to Walshes
is encouraged as well as discussion of collateral families. Public announcements
of information of interest to Genealogists in general though it may not be
Walsh-specific is permitted but please use discretion.
- Do not post virus warnings, test messages, chain letters, political
announcements, current events, items for sale, personal messages, etc. For
information on virus hoaxes and urban legends see
http://www.kumite.com/myths/ among others.
- Please do not send file attachments (messages with files appended) to the
list. If you have a file you would like to share with the members, announce
what you have to offer, then send the file only to those who request it,
via private email. There are many Walsh branches and not everyone will want
the data on your line.
- No rude comments or flaming in the list! No discussion of flaming in the
list. For definitions of flaming and related information see
http://www.man.ac.uk/~zlsiira/Netiquette/flame.html and
http://www.pass.wayne.edu/~twk/flaming.html
- Do not impose any other rules or conditions, expressed or implied
elsewhere, upon this list. Rules of other forums may not necessarily apply
here. Do not try to regulate this list. If you do not like the way someone
formats their queries or responses, or the content of their subject titles,
take it up with the listowner, NOT in the list. The list is for Genealogy
and History.
Guidelines
- Small gedcom files are discouraged but not banned from the list (send in
a message, NOT as a file attachment) as long as the resulting message is no
larger than 20000 bytes maximum.
- Try to keep quoting to a minimum. "Quoting" is repeating text of the
message you are replying to. Some quoting is necessary to remind other
readers what the thread is about but do try to use good judgement. Quoting
the previous writer's signature block or surname list is totally unnecessary.
- Surname lists are okay but please try to limit them to say, half a dozen
names. Any more than that and many people just won't read them. Try keeping
several small lists and rotate them with each succeeding message.
Subscription Instructions
- Subscription commands (not genealogy messages) are e-mailed to either
[email protected] (List mode)
-or to -
[email protected] (Digest mode)
In the BODY of the email message, type either the command:
- subscribe (and absolutely nothing else but the word subscribe)
or
- unsubscribe (and absolutely nothing else but the word unsubscribe)
You can use CAPS or lowercase, it doesn't matter. No subject line is
needed. Also turn off your
signature line if you normally append one to your outgoing e-mails.
IMPORTANT: To unsubscribe, remember which of the two modes you
originally subscribed to. Send the UNSUBSCRIBE command to the address
(above) you originally subscribed to. If you change your e-mail address,
don't forget to unsubscribe your old e-mail address!
[email protected]
is "list mode" - you receive messages as they are posted to the list.
This is also known as "mail mode".
[email protected]
is "digest mode" - you receive messages as a group on a periodic basis.
Again, ONLY subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to the
following addresses above.
Posting Messages
- You must subscribe to the list before your
genealogy message can be posted.
- To post a genealogy message or reply to the list, send
it to
[email protected]
Hint: Be specific and include names, dates, places and family in your message.
It helps to put a short topic of your posting in the "subject line".
REMEMBER - Do NOT post subscribe or unsubscribe commands here!
See Subscription Instructions for this.
Important Note on Posting Messages: The WALSH-L mailing list at RootsWeb accepts
only plain text mail. That means that HTML mail, attachments, ``enriched
text'', and a few other formats can't be sent to RootsWeb mailing lists.
You can post your message if you send it in plain text; turn off the
``Post in HTML'' or ``Enriched Text'' features of your mail reader, or
don't use any attachments.
Tips
- Accuracy is important and sources are vital. Ancestor lists are worthless
if the information is wrong.
- All information need not be accompanied by source citations, but I do
recommend strongly that posts either include sources or a note stating that
they are available on request.
- If information is speculation then label it as such until it is proven or
commonly accepted as fact.
- When posting your query try to give as much information as you know, i.e.
dates and places of all vital events if known, along with enough other
family members so that the reader can positively identify if they are
researching the same family. "Anyone out there researching Walshes?" just
doesn't cut it.
- When replying to the list (this also can apply to private replies) try to
quote some portions of the previous message so that other readers are
reminded what the "thread" is about. Make it clear what is quoted material
and what you are adding. Most mail readers take care of this for you by
inserting greater-than signs ">" at the beginning of each quoted line or
possibly double brackets "<<" before and ">>" after the quoted piece. Use
standard Windows procedures to "cut" unnecessary material.
- Post your query frequently, perhaps once a month, if you have not yet
found your ancestor. New people are joining the list all the time and they
may have the info you need.
- Please send Walsh replies to the list, not just to the original poster.
Other members may benefit from the data that you provide.
Searching Archived Messages
You can now search the Walsh-L mailing list archive at
Rootsweb
Interactive Search. You will be taken to a search screen which allows you to search for
specific text within the messages posted to the WALSH-L mailing list.
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