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From: Ray Brown <>
Subject: Re: Family newsletter advice
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 00:28:04 -0500


You have tow choices
1) Do seperate newsletters, one for each side of the family.
2) Do one for all of the Family. This may have some advantages that you don't see at this time. As we go back in our families my wife and I have some common anchestors starting back in the middle 1600.s, so some information would be of use to both. We
just found the same last week on my mothers and fathers families.
You probally would not find this, but as the tree grows you may and the information on one of your families may help a spouce to a relitive in the other. If your family has always been small you are less likely to find this.

If you are going to do this through the mail seperate list would help keep the mailing cost down. If most members of your family are on the net I would say to do one be email. Their are email programs that will send a seperate copy to each member, I
use Parsons email 2000 which will read a text file of addresses and send a seperate copy of a newsletter to each adddress in the text file.

On thelfamily links that I mentioned above my wife and I are both decendants of Thomas Barber who settled in Windsor, CT in 1620. Both of my parents are descendants of the Rev. Thomas Hooker, this was just found last week on my fathers side.

This shows how small the country is if your Families have been hear from early times.

wrote:

> Hi, I am new to this list. I am starting a family newsletter & have a
> question. I am doing research on my lines along with my husbands. I was going
> to do one on all of them & include a surname index. I plan on putting old
> family photos in them also. This seems like a lot of unnecessary info for
> families not related to certain lines. I thought then that I would do two
> separate ones. One for my husbands side & one for my side I have to wonder,
> where do you draw the line. There will always be someone receiving info not
> directly related to them. I welcome any advice you can offer me.
> Many thanks.......Ana Downey
>
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