oldenburg-l - Nachricht 2007-01 00077

[Uwe G. Pommerening <ugpommerening(a)t-online.de>]

Are you  looking for this?...........

To all people in the lists...


Again and again I feel frustrated when I don't get an answer to my emails.
In a German list I found a very nice hint:

...CAPITALIZE always each FamilyName (not FirstName) appearing in your text
by the first time .....

...ie. Peter POMMERENING got married to Bertha Luise HOLLBERG. One son
immigrated to the USA. He married Jane MYERS of Oskosh, WI..
while Wilhelm Pommerening never immigrated......

Please ask yourself, whereto your eyes will focus when reading an email? The
answer is:  to words VARYING FROM STANDARD, to a DIFFERENT or UNUSUAL
APPEARANCE. (Don't use colours, italics or bold face as not all users have
the ability).

In the lists there are lots of researchers receiving up to 100 emails a day.
Do you really beleave that they all read what you have put down, and if so,
do they than have time left to answer? I beleave not. Meanwhile I have
raised my hit rate extremly by using the above hint.

When I look for a MAIN NAME in a family, I just put the FamilyName appearing
the first time in capital letters. The same procedure when I look for PLACE
NAMENS.

I learned that some people in the USA use capitalization of names only if
they want to express if/that the person is something negative???....You may
explaine to me please. Here in Germany this does not apply and as I know in
other European countries neither. We are living in a global world and use
Internet therefor things should be done more professional helping all of us
in Europe, the U.S.A and R.O.W.

Let me hear about your view of this subject?

Rgds
Uwe G. (POMMERENING)


I search for POMMERENING, BRANDT, DONNER, DOERR.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "kumodoke" <kumodoke(a)planet.nl>
To: "Oldenburg-L" <oldenburg-l(a)genealogy.net>
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 8:52 PM
Subject: [OL] Pommeren?


> All the time I want to say to the person who has send the message about
why he has got no answers at this list at his questions.
>
> But I could not find the message back in the archives. It was something
with the name: "Pommeren" or so
>
> Well, what I like to say is that I have some experience with other (very
active)  mailinglists.
>
> The point is that in f.e. Denmark and in Norway a lot of records are
online. So if one ask a question to this list the answer is very quick.
>
> In the regions in Germany there are much lesser records online. So if one
ask a questions to a German list, f.e. the Oldenburg List, the answer will
depend if somebody has the familyname, you ask for, in his of her database.
>
> I have also got never answers at my questions. But it is not the case that
the listers are unwilling.
> It's just that the information is hard to get online in the German
regions.
>
> Reina
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