bennison@clt.DEC (Victor Bennison - DTN 381-2156) (12/05/85)
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I posted a note a while back explaining why I thought net.roots does not
get a lot of traffic. Without someone performing a service, such as
keeping a data base of surnames, there just isn't too much that a
store and forward net like this can provide to genealogists. There
aren't enough people on the net who are into genealogy to make the
knowledge base broad enough. I have been doing genealogical research
for over ten years now and most of the questions I've seen in net.roots
have been either too specific or too general for me to be able to
contribute.
As for the bulletin board service, it is not very
economical to spend money for a coast to coast long distance call to
get a surname search on a database that contains a paltry 10,000 entries.
The probability of a relevent hit is pretty small at that level. And
for a few pennies I can drive to my local Morman genealogical library
and browse free for hours through millions of records, including a surname
registry that must contain hundreds of thousands of names.
However, since you offered, and particularly if it's a local call for
you, you might look and see if the ROOTS-BBS has anything on the
surnames:
LOOP (LUPP/LEUPP)
or
BENNISON
These are pretty uncommon surnames and it is unlikely anything will
turn up.
Vick Bennison
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