OK, if you must know ... I've been at this 20 years. First I was on AOL and ran the Portuguese chat there with Mel (of YourIslandRoutes), John Vasconcelos, and Linda C who did the Madeira questions. When the AOL genealogy chats were reconfigured by AOL, the Portuguese chats went to LusaWeb. Chats eventually had their day. Lists/listservs were taking over. Most genealogy lists were housed on Rootsweb. The Rootsweb systems have their rules and regulations. One thing you cannot do on Rootsweb is attach a file so others can look at it. If Portuguese is not your native language, that makes it really hard to figure out those records. There were also other problems as well. Eloise Cadinha asked me to start another list. I contacted some genealogy admins on Yahoo Groups and Google Groups and went with Google. Eloise was the first member and I was the 2nd! (She must be a quick typist)!
I'm sure person 1000 is wondering what they've started! I just thought 1000 was a neat number and realized our list is 7 years old, so I posted the milestones. Not to get kudos from all of you. So we don't drive person 1000 off the list, I will tell the 975 of you who have not said anything that you are quite welcome, and let's all get back to genealogy :) Cheri Mello Listowner, Azores-Gen Researching: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, Ribeira das Tainhas, Achada -- To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. Follow the confirmation directions when they arrive. For more options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership."
