From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Wed Aug 23 09:00:36 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k7NF0ajb023093; Wed, 23 Aug 2006 09:00:36 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k7NF0Yu6022724 for ; Wed, 23 Aug 2006 09:00:34 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k7NCKRFI016186 for ; Wed, 23 Aug 2006 08:20:27 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k7NCKRlF016185 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Wed, 23 Aug 2006 08:20:27 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k7N97PFI015785 for ; Wed, 23 Aug 2006 05:07:26 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k7NBlMNH009086 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Wed, 23 Aug 2006 05:47:22 -0600 X-Envelope-From: karenprytula@hydroottawa.com Wed Aug 23 05:47:22 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k7NBlMjb009077 for ; Wed, 23 Aug 2006 05:47:22 -0600 Received: from smtp.hydroottawa.com (HydroOttawa-gw.telecomottawa.net [142.46.196.98]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k7NBlIiB008485 for ; Wed, 23 Aug 2006 05:47:19 -0600 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: RE: [ROOTS-L] Re: ROOTS-L Digest V06 #369 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 07:46:59 -0400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.7226.0 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: [ROOTS-L] Re: ROOTS-L Digest V06 #369 thread-index: AcbGYph9+5jGhREdSzSQhj0cBy4sFgARY9lQ From: "Prytula, Karen" To: X-Spam-Score: 1.31 (*) BAYES_00,FORGED_RCVD_HELO X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by admin.rootsweb.com id k7NBlMjb009077 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Fred / Cathy I'm in the same boat. I help people with their genealogy in my spare time. I now have over 140 unread email messages in my in-bin...I have had to stop sending acknowledgements to the senders. I found my whole evenings were spent just sending notes saying " I have received your email and will work on your request as soon as I can". Next thing you know your spare time is up, and I've got nothing accomplished. I do think you should re-send your letter. Along with your email address, include your mailing address and phone #. Does your newspaper have a website, you might find an actual contact name and number on it. Better still, you might want to phone the newspaper directly and inquire. They might be able to tell you right away that NO, they don't have an archives of the obituaries BUT might be able to direct you to exactly where you can find them. Karen Prytula -----Original Message----- From: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com [mailto:roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com]On Behalf Of Cathleen Wesemann Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 8:27 PM To: ROOTS-M@rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] Re: ROOTS-L Digest V06 #369 > I wrote to the local newspaper less than a year ago and asked if > there were archives of obituaries. I included my e-mail address, > but, very > sadly, no reply. (I can't help but to find that rude-- how long > does it > take to sent an e-mail stating whatever?!) Fred --librarian. Her whole job is maintaining our website. I help out as I can with our internal library system, but I'm behind by about a week. The point I'm trying to make is that it could be the person you wrote the email to just didn't have the time to see if their library has an archives of obituaries available online for the public to view. Or, perhaps he/she saw what your note was about, and forwarded it to the librarian. If the librarian is anything like ours, she just doesn't have the time. I've told our librarian that if she gets any genealogy questions, to forward them to me, because I know she doesn't have time to check her email on a daily basis. I've got 2 notes from her from people asking genealogical questions that I still haven't had time to answer. I will, but it is taking me awhile to get back to them. I know it seems rude to not answer an email right away, but the people who work at newspapers are not interested in genealogy unless it's an employee (like me) who does this as a hobby. It's not that they don't want to help, it's that they have to get a newspaper out, and there are deadlines to meet in order to get that paper printed and out the door to a customer's door by 6 a.m. We're a daily newspaper, so we have to do this every day with a staff that could use a lot more people. Since it sounds like it's been quite awhile since you last wrote to them, perhaps you should try again. Cathy Wesemann Belleville, St. Clair, IL