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I have tried several times to subscribe to the following mailing genealogy list ie eng-yks-d-request@rootsweb.? .com and get the following reply ------- From MAILER-DAEMON@yahoo,com ----- cannot deliver the message to this address, it is a permanent error-- I,ve given up, sorry. 66.43.27.44 does not like recipient Remote host said: 550 5.1.1 user unknown Can anyone help please Bazza

Would it be against the law to type the text from newspaper obits and post them on the web for personal use? i subscribe to a few genealogy mailing lists and i've noticed that sometimes people just type the name of the deceased and the newspaper article the obit is located in...why? i am asking because i want to type up some obits that i have at home and post them to the internet so that i can share info with other researchers... thanks in advance!

Someone stated on a mailing list that genealogies should include medical history? I have some medical histories in mine. However, when we go so far back I am not sure of the significance. There was a time when people did not understand the pathology of bodily and mental illnesses and retardation. Most hereditary problems usually come up when both parents carry the gene with that problem. For instance two people who carry the epilectic gene have a better chance of having an epilectic child than an epilectic does. I understand you only worry about mental illnesses or mental retardation if you see a consistent pattern from a common ancestor. They knew nothing in times past about birth traumas and loss of oxygen to the brain during delivery. Diabetes. Today, we know more about it. Some are Type 1 and they are born with it and some are Type 2 and it is caused by lifestyle. I had a maternal grandfather that was probably diabetic and died in 1937 because I read a letter from my grandmother where he had sores that would not heal. My assumption is diabetes. Got some good answers. Now my question is things they didn't know about. When my grandfather was found dead in bed back in 1937, people knew very little about diabetes, but I feel he had it. Mental problems, only thing they knew is for some reason a person's behavior was something that was difficult to cope with. They really didn't know the pathology of it. I had an uncle that as a young man worked at the State Hospital in Austin, Texas. He was told not to say anything to any of the patients, that they would ask him questions and not to answer. They kept asking him questions, "What's your name? " Where are you from?" Finally, he told them his name was Lee and they jumped him and repeatedly asked him all sorts of questions over and over and a guard had to beat them off with big keys. You know, if a person wasn't totally mad when they went into place like that where no one would talk to them, they had to be after they were there for awhile. Now if someone suffered a severe head trauma and behaved strangely afterwards, they could figure out that it had to do with what happened to that person, but they really didn't understand why. I had a great grandmother that had a roof to cave in on her and she went blind and her mind wasn't right after that. A first cousin of my mother's told me she had a hole in her head big enough to put a silver dollar in it. Now, they could figure that sort of thing out. Therefore, though, when you might not always know by census record, Bible records, etc what might have happened to a person that could have effected them.

Can a person without any Yahoo ID join a restricted group? I am a moderator on a genealogy group whose membership is restricted. But some members who joined Aug-Dec 2010 appear on the list with "Request Profile" in their Yahoo ID field, which I thought meant they did not have one. How did this happen? Testing for new people joining now (Feb 2011) has resulted in emails to groupname-subscribe(at)yahoogroups.com being undeliverable because "this user doesn't have a yahoo.com account". Has something changed recently? Do even mailing-list-only members now have to have a Yahoo ID? Thanks CrazyMom - that's what I thought should happen. But I was testing it out on my husband's PC because he has never had a Yahoo ID, and he got the reply I quoted - both from his normal emailer, and from a brand new dummy Yahoo ID that I then created for him. I wondered if it had worked on my earlier testing because I do already have a Yahoo ID, but not under the pseudonym I had set up specially. If it ought to work, then I need to know why.

Continuing my previous quest, so i I install Office 2000 and permit the free MS up-grades, ? would Microsoft upgrade it to the 2009 version, grin? I am not a scrounger but am on a pension, and grateful for my new Tiny-replacement Computer that Santa Claus brought me. Besides e-mails I need to write letters and study documents, plus I want to do genealogy on a spread sheet (lists of certificates and census address etc not a "Tree"). I could use Tables but the print-out limits the columns where as a spreadsheet means I can go on for ever. Thanks all of you for your help.

This is long, but it's serious about a Long lost father? Okay what would you do? I'm very into genealogy and doing my family tree, So my Aunt (who is my dad's half sister) asked me for help compiling her family tree. My Grandmother had her first marriage to a man in 1942 Soon after gave birth to my Aunt in 1944 and in 1947 gave birth to my other aunt. In 1949 my grandmother divorced this man and my Aunts never saw or heard from him again. In 2002 my Grandmother died. My grandmother was a very hateful selfish woman so we always assumed that she was the reason that they never saw their dad again. So the beginning of this month I began helping my aunt compile her family tree with the little information I have and discovered that at age 94 her father is still alive and doing VERY well. She has no desire to meet him, but does wonder if she has any other siblings. So when I get up the courage I call him basically to tell him that she is well but that I am needing information for the family tree. Now keep in mind that even before I have called him I have already posted on 2-3 sites on the internet listing this man as My grandmother's first husband not realizing that he was still alive. I have also posted on many message boards asking people for any information they may have about this man. I have also been in contact with at least 4 people by e-mail. So when I call him I ask him if his name is " First, Middle and Last name" and he says yes and then asks who I am so then I break it down for him (He is not hard of hearing) He then denies that he was every married to my grandmother and tells me he doesn't have middle name and that I have the wrong guy. I then ask him if he was born in the place that he was born and he tells me that he was not born there but that he was actually born in a different city and state, which I know is the same city and state that he went to college (Mind you it is a very small city) so I tell him I think he is lying and that I'm sorry he feels he has to, that we don't want anything from him. We hang up. So I'm at the conclusion that he has been lying to his family since 1950. I am 100% sure this is him, I have pictures of the man I am talking to and my aunt has confirmed that it is him based on pictures in her baby book, So there is no doubt he is lying. But then last night I discover that I am communicating with her sister over e-mail about this family tree. The Sister May or May not know that her father was previously married and has two children from that marriage. I'm leaning more towards the fact that she doesn't know. But she is also working on her family tree and if she searches at all I'm pretty sure she will find the family trees that I have posted listing her father as my grandmother's first husband. So should I tell her or should I let nature run it's course? By my Calculations, She is probably no older than mid to late 50. If you would tell her, how would you? I am no long bothering the man, It is his daughter from his current marriage who I am communicating with now. I am no longer asking questions about him but his family line, because I really do need family input to get my ducks in a row. And it is not a gut feeling, I know this is the man. He lives in a VERY small town there I have found newspaper articles on him about him and his wife current wife with new and old pictures. Also in the phone book it lists his middle initial. He is sort of a local celebrity with accomplishments he has made, Written books, athletic accomplishment. I know for a fact I have the right man. Okay closing this and awarding somebody the points because the case is solved and I don't feel like the negative comments are helpful The woman ended up asking me more twice who I was related to in the family so I told her. I was not harassing this poor man I got caught in a situation and needed advice. Turns out she was glad I found her, she knew about this and had been looking for her sister for a long time. The father has Alzheimer. I was only asking for advice. I don't feel that calling once is harassment and continuing to look for family information of her own family is harassment. It was purely a coincidence that this happened to be his daughter and I've been sick over it for over a day now! I've been doing Genealogy for ten years and have gone to classes. I have NEVER had anything like this happen to me and was confused. Thank you for all the helpful advice. Okay closing this and awarding somebody the points because the case is solved and I don't feel like the negative comments are helpful The woman ended up asking me more twice who I was related to in the family so I told her. I was not harassing this poor man I got caught in a situation and needed advice. Turns out she was glad I found her, she knew about this and had been looking for her sister for a long time. The father has Alzheimer. I was only asking for advice. I don't feel that calling once is harassment and continuing to look for family information of her own family is harassment. It was purely a coincidence that this happened to be his daughter and I've been sick over it for over a day now! I've been doing Genealogy for ten years and have gone to classes. I have NEVER had anything like this happen to me and was confused. Thank you for all the helpful advice.