From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Wed Jul 26 18:22:14 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 k6R0MEjb000637; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 18:22:14 -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 k6R0MBWh031787 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 18:22:11 -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 k6QLhgFI029018 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 17:43:42 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k6QLhgfi029017 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 17:43:42 -0400 Resent-From: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Resent-Message-Id: <200607262143.k6QLhgfi029017@roots-l.rootsweb.com> 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 k6QKY4FI026362 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 16:34:04 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k6QNCMSZ001954 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 17:12:22 -0600 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 k6QNCMjb001945 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 17:12:22 -0600 by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k6QNAdE6020577 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 17:12:19 -0600 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 16:10:35 -0700 (PDT) Delivery-Date: Wed Jul 26 16:08:02 2006 Received: from askin-67.linkpendium.com (askin-67.linkpendium.com [63.173.235.67]) Received: by askin-67.linkpendium.com (Postfix, from userid 503) id DD97824B17D; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 16:07:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by askin-67.linkpendium.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 517CA24B16A Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k6QN7tA4000486 for ROOTS-admin@lists5.rootsweb.com; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 17:07:55 -0600 Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 17:07:55 -0600 X-From_: sandra.j@comcast.net Wed Jul 26 17:07:54 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 k6QN7sjb000476 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 17:07:54 -0600 Received: from sccrmhc14.comcast.net (sccrmhc14.comcast.net [63.240.77.84]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k6QN64CO019013 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 17:07:48 -0600 Received: from sandy (c-67-161-94-68.hsd1.wa.comcast.net[67.161.94.68]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc14) with SMTP id <2006072623062901400cfbj1e>; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 23:06:30 +0000 Message-ID: <003b01c6b108$2054a230$6501a8c0@Sandy> From: "Sandy Jacobson" To: ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com References: <200607240339.k6O3dTVH001014@lists5.rootsweb.com> Old-Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 16:06:27 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1807 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1807 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Envelope-To: ROOTS-L Resent-To: roots-l@rootsweb.com Resent-Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 16:10:35 -0700 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] Re: ROOTS-L Digest V06 #313 Hello, I am fairly new to genealogy research. I see so many times a reference to gedcom but have no idea what it means. Please, please don't abbreviate words as there are some who have no clue what you are speaking of. Use the word, then in parenthesis the abbreviation. From then on we'll know what is being referred to. Thank you, Sandy J.