[or-roots] Immigration roll call / posting to list

[Leslie Chapman]

Debbie;

That was a nice presentation of your family lines. I have a Wiseman in my
family tree, however I believe they are Jewish so probably not connected to
your Irish. All I have is the gal who married my nephew; Wendy Michelle born
in Portland in 1952, I know her dad was a merchant marine and they lived in
NE Portland, on or near Albina, but for some reason I don't have either of
their names.

Did you have any specific quests you would like help with.

Or-roots is a fairly relaxed list as far as genealogy lists go; I have seen
lists that have "ironclad" rules for posts, ie. surename must be all caps,
and questions only accepted in a rigid format; surname, first name, middle /
etc title [second line] birth date places [third line] marriage date place,
[fourth line] date of death place of death' best estimates for information
not known and then you could ask ONE question.

While we don;t work that way here, it is still helpful to have as much
information as you already have so that we can concentrate on what you don't
know. My favorite trick is to jump on someones query and spend a couple of
hours digging into the census info, as that is one thing I have some farily
easy access to, only to find out the querier has more Census stuff for their
subject than I can possibly find.

I don't mind that much as I very rarely spend very much time looking for
someone else's people that I don't find something for one of  my own lines,
but I would really encourage people who are posting queries to mention what
censuses they are in too.

Of course the biggest sin we all commit from time to time is not having our
subject line match our post. That hasn't been so common lately since the IS
wizards that handle the Or-roots technical side in their infinite wisdom
have set things up so that hitting your "reply" button to respond to an
Or-roots post will generally get your reply lost in cyber-space, but the
list has also been pretty inactive lately and their "might" be a connection
between those two facts.

Les C