Greetings and Guten Tag,
I am a new subscriber to this list (about 2 weeks) and I have had a little
trouble understanding how it works; in fact I hope I'm sending this e-mail
to the write address. :-))
I belong to 2 other lists that are German/English. The German is written
first, and then the English translation follows.
Perhaps this is what subscriber Betty thought she had signed up for, even as
I did. I now realize that I must find my own translation source. The only
one I knew of was Babel Fish at
www.altavista.com which works sometimes and sometimes it doesn't.
Thanks to Tim from Oklahoma, who gave another translation web site, I now
have a new means of translating.
The other mistake I made was subscribing to the digest mode, instead of the
list mode. I had a little trouble trying to figure out how to change, but I
hope now I'm on the right track.
Please don't be too critical of Betty, many of us are new to these
lists---in fact, I've been researching genealogy on the internet for over a
year, and I just discovered these lists about 2 months ago. I now belong
to 8 of them, and some of them function differently---it's a little difficult
keeping track of how each one operates.
Hope you listers won't mind my 2 cents worth, but please be patient with us
while we learn the ropes.
Best Regards to All,
Marilyn in Ohio