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Subject: Re: Family Associations
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 1997 10:29:04 -0400 (EDT)

Exchanging with other publishers......

<<Janet raised the question of sharing newsletters with other newsletter
publisher>>
One of my Newsletters is Taylors of America Newsletter
I exchange with other Taylor family publishers. In doing this, it helps me
to avoid duplication. In a name like Taylor, there are many routes to
follow. I have not desire to compete with the other Taylor publications. I
prefer to compliment them by covering areas that are not being covered by
them. I think there is room for all of us. I can see that it isn't
difficult for a person to subscribe to all the Taylor publications available.
My newsletter is larger then the other Taylor publications and more
expensive. I heavily concentrate on census records and cemetery records which
I extract. The only possible duplication would be queries. A subscriber
might submit a query to each of us. I don't really see that as a problem and
I would run it any way. I wouldn't want an article submitted to other Taylor
publications but a query would be fine. So, exchanges are helpful if you
want to be careful of duplications.

I also exchange with a Robinsons newsletter, for the same reason. As for the
Ballard newsletter, there are no publishers of this name. There was a Lady
that started one up after mine but for personal reasons had to stop. There
use to be a Ballard Family Association. I sure would like to find out what
they did with their files after they disolved.
Lynne D. Miller
American Research
Taylors of America Newsletter
Robinsons of America Newsletter
Ballards of America Newsletter

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