So politeness and kindness is not needed here? I still think the response
could have been nicer! Bah Humbug to all you grumpy Germans out there! And
shame on you! You sound like some of my relatives.
Sharon Kroeger
So politeness and kindness is not needed here? I still think the response
could have been nicer! Bah Humbug to all you grumpy Germans out there!
And
shame on you! You sound like some of my relatives.
Sharon Kroeger
Sharon you are close to it but you still havn`t got it. A general key is
politness and kindness - your are right with that. But all the emotional
response to the 'unsubscribe email' was just a result of a unfriendly stupid
and I do not mean Fred, I mean the lady who wrote the unsubscribe email. Her
failure was that she hasn`t simply asked to be unsubscribed, perfectly with
a line that she sadly can`t find out how to do it by herself. There have
been several other before who couldn`t find out by themself. But she
grumbled about the mailinglist without asking herself if only she is the
problem.
And further on I have NO idea why you are beginning to widen the circle. The
discussion was about the bad combination of stupidness & beeing unfriendly.
The response to the [HN]Genealogy email I have seen havn`t been from
Germans like me who are living in Germany. So why do you write this
diplomatic incorrect lines?
Sven Honerkamp
Melle - Lower Saxony - Europe
Sharon;
I agree with your response. If this world ever needed tolerance it is now,
even on a genealogy mailing list.
Genealogy is not easy and the very nature of it demands cooperation. As a
hobby, we have to help new people. When I started here I was "clueless".
Many people who are starting out have the mistaken idea that they can
download an entire family tree on internet. Places like Ancestry give them
that idea with their ads. I was raised in a home where my parents spoke
German only when they didn't want me to understand and at a time when the
German language was frowned upon (post WWII). Now I wish they had taught
me. I know that I am missing a lot on this list because I don't speak the
language other than the basic genealogy terms. I have finally contacted
some Buescher's in Germany who may be related. We have become friends
through e-mail largely because they speak English. I am going to try to
learn enough German to add a few sentences each time I mail.
So while my search was for the past, I have connected to people living in
Germany today. One of the very special things we have shared, are our
feelings about the current world situation. I have come to learn what
German people went through in WWI and II from their words.
So lets all be a little more tolerate.
Regards,
Lee in cold and windy Wisconsin