From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Tue Feb 7 08:57:24 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k17FvOE0024961; Tue, 7 Feb 2006 08:57:24 -0700 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 k17FvM4X023074 for ; Tue, 7 Feb 2006 08:57:22 -0700 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 k17DSwFI024935 for ; Tue, 7 Feb 2006 08:28:58 -0500 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k17DSw32024934 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Tue, 7 Feb 2006 08:28:58 -0500 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 k179JjFI023538 for ; Tue, 7 Feb 2006 04:19:45 -0500 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k17BlxqJ022022 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Tue, 7 Feb 2006 04:47:59 -0700 X-Envelope-From: myancestries@hotmail.com Tue Feb 7 04:47:59 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k17BlxE0022013 for ; Tue, 7 Feb 2006 04:47:59 -0700 Received: from hotmail.com (bay7-f19.bay7.hotmail.com [64.4.11.44]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k17Blp65023840 for ; Tue, 7 Feb 2006 04:47:54 -0700 Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Tue, 7 Feb 2006 03:47:47 -0800 Message-ID: Received: from 67.131.237.21 by by7fd.bay7.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Tue, 07 Feb 2006 11:47:47 GMT X-Originating-IP: [83.209.121.117] X-Originating-Email: [myancestries@hotmail.com] X-Sender: myancestries@hotmail.com From: =?iso-8859-1?B?QW5uYSBIYWxsZ3Lobg==?= To: ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 12:47:47 +0100 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed X-OriginalArrivalTime: 07 Feb 2006 11:47:47.0873 (UTC) FILETIME=[51052910:01C62BDC] X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by lists5.rootsweb.com id k17BlxqJ022022 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by roots-l.rootsweb.com id k179JjFI023538 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] Re: Why should people help you? Hi everybody, my name is Anna, I live in Sweden and don't have English as my native language. I've been following this discussion about "Why should people help you?" on and off and read some, not all, of the messages. So forgive me if I might say something that already has been said. :-) I read that it's not rude nor poor netiquette to correct grammar and spelling and it probably isn't, it all depends on how one correct the misspelling etc. I do, however, feel that perhaps this talk about people not being "able" to spell could scare off some of the list members who don't have English as their native language. Many Swedes immigrated to the US and therefor I believe that there might be some Swedish people on this list. Probably people from other countries as well. I know that my English grammar and my spelling is far from correct, but I hope it doesn't mean that one have to be afraid of asking for advice about genealogy related matters. Perhaps there is someone, who hasn't English as his/her native language, who is reading these messages about poor grammar etc and as a result of this gets scared of asking for advice because he/she isn't that good at the English language. I'm trying to live my life by treating others like I want to be treated and if I unknowingly offend or make someone sad I try to appologize, because I definitely don't want to offend or hurt anyone. So I hope that I haven't offended or hurt anyone with this message - in such case I appologize! I also hope that I don't seem to be hostile towards anyone - that is definitely NOT my intent!! And when it comes to my grammar and spelling - I know for sure I've made some mistakes in this message, but I'm hoping it's okey anyway as I'm doing the best I can! :-) Before I sign off I just want to say thank you to this list and that I really do appreciate all the help I have gotten from kind and helpful people! I wouldn't have gotten as far as I have in my research about my relatives that immigrated to the US if it wasn't for you! :-) Kind regards, Anna in Sweden _________________________________________________________________ Chat: Ha en fest på Habbo Hotel http://habbohotel.msn.se/habbo/sv/channelizer Checka in här!