Re: testing a new discussion site idea-please read this

["John S. Quarterman" <jsq@mids.org>]

Ray,

>Dear Laurel:  I have felt badly that so many cousins have come to our
>table and don't even get a nibble.  One thing that might help is to
>place a squib on our menu for first-time users "Please give all the
>information you have; names, dates, places, known in the family or
>inferred".

Such a note now appears in
 http://www.mids.org/sinclair/list.html
immediately above the space for posting a message.

Probably in Paul's guestbook webpage would be another good place
for such a note.

>I have and will continue to respond to all of those which mention
>Caithness, Edinburgh, Shetland (because of my work with my pen pal in
>Western Australia), Nashville and California.  My closely related
>Sinclairs came to Los Angeles in 1906.

You're an example to us all.

>Ray

John
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