From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Sun Jul 16 09:31:58 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 k6GFVwjb021227; Sun, 16 Jul 2006 09:31:58 -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 k6GFVv1m021908 for ; Sun, 16 Jul 2006 09:31:57 -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 k6GCsVFI032312 for ; Sun, 16 Jul 2006 08:54:31 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k6GCsVlS032311 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Sun, 16 Jul 2006 08:54:31 -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 k6GAPJFI032003 for ; Sun, 16 Jul 2006 06:25:20 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k6GD2bqt032431 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Sun, 16 Jul 2006 07:02:37 -0600 X-Envelope-From: omchodoy@gmail.com Sun Jul 16 07:02:37 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 k6GD2bjb032420 for ; Sun, 16 Jul 2006 07:02:37 -0600 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.175]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k6GD2Xa0005389 for ; Sun, 16 Jul 2006 07:02:33 -0600 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id m2so480422uge for ; Sun, 16 Jul 2006 06:02:57 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=pt51RZhWv5ugiUa/74e/+W2t7N+hIWLLVzDqu7qFVIuLwOi6rfgGpmk8gQnzJEoHL3POXlBCCbotx8M0B/e8Wxpr2huIHmpZy46f4us/k0T3rxO68zhrTwdTePG7RX0ewFgvUO9NjnkldigoTuz3dKAKYUVQsmpt2qEpQsYCue4= Received: by 10.66.219.11 with SMTP id r11mr1534523ugg; Sun, 16 Jul 2006 06:02:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.66.220.16 with HTTP; Sun, 16 Jul 2006 06:02:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 06:02:56 -0700 From: Colleen To: "Dddarwin@aol.com" Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] Sloppy Requests!! Cc: ROOTS-M@rootsweb.com In-Reply-To: <2d3.b2362dd.31eb0290@aol.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed References: <2d3.b2362dd.31eb0290@aol.com> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com It's also helpful to let us know what research you have already done. To ask for information from a census record without mentioning you've already looked at 1870, 1880, and 1900 only wastes the time of others who may re-do it. On 7/15/06, Dddarwin@aol.com wrote: > > To All Requesters........... > > This is not directed at anyone in particular but there are some very > sloppy > requests coming thru asking for information on people. > > One instance - Asking for Census information. They state they have found > someone in an earlier census but the person might have moved. > > They give no approximate birth date or place for that person, who > else might > have been in the census they are looking for, where parents might > have been > born (after 1880 Censuses only), etc. > > Please..............if you have "ANY INFORMATION" that will assist the > rest > of us that's what you need to put into your request. None of us are mind > readers and unless it's a name so uncommon we need more data. > > One name I tried in one census there were over 2,500 (where supposedly the > person was found but did not show up in the county mentioned). The next > census > there were over 9,000. Little hard to pinpoint someone without enough > information. > > In other words......think thru what you're asking for and give enough data > to maybe find the person you're looking so they can be found. > > I read at least 3 others that I knew it was hopeless even looking for so > didn't bother to check them out at all. > > You might not care for my comments but most of us, who have been searching > for some time, bypass these types of questions as we know we can't help > and > consequently you'll never get a reply. > > Other than that......hope you all have a great weekend, Gretchen > > > > > -- Colleen www.omchodoy.blogspot.com www.onlyingenealogy.blogspot.com