Genealogy in Bennington County, Vermont
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The Bennington County Genealogy Discussion List (VTBENNIN-L) began in January 1999. It is an email discussion list open to anyone who has an interest in genealogy, family history, or local history in Bennington County, Vermont or any of its towns, i.e., Arlington, Bennington, Dorset, Glastenbury, Landgrove, Manchester, Peru, Pownal, Readsboro, Rupert, Sandgate, Searsburg, Shaftsbury, Stamford, Sunderland, Winhall, and Woodford.
Email discussion lists like VTBENNIN-L are basically lists of email addresses. When you subscribe to VTBENNIN-L, you add your email address to the list. Anyone subscribed can send an email message to the list in order to have other subscribers automatically receive that message. It costs nothing to join this discussion list. The purpose is to provide a forum where people with a common interest can share ideas and information. You are free to ask questions about genealogical and historical research and resources in Bennington County as well as post queries concerning Bennington County families. Other subscribers may be able to provide answers or direct you to the resources you are looking for.
You can subscribe to VTBENNIN-L in list or digest mode. In list mode, individual messages from other subscribers posted to the discussion list will arrive in your email inbox as separate messages. In digest mode, the messages are grouped together and sent as a single message on a periodic basis. The volume of messages on a discussion list such as VTBENNIN-L can vary with periods of no activity to other times when several messages may be posted on a daily basis. Messages posted to VTBENNIN-L are archived and searchable.
How to Subscribe and Post Messages
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To subscribe to VTBENNIN-L, send an email message to:
VTBENNIN-L-request@rootsweb.com
or for the digest:
VTBENNIN-D-request@rootsweb.com
and simply put the text:
subscribe
without any other text in the body of the message. If you successfully subscribe, you will receive a welcome message in response. Whether you are subscribed in list or digest mode, you would post messages by sending them to:
VTBENNIN-L@rootsweb.com
Only subscribers to the list can post messages. To unsubscribe from VTBENNIN-L, send an email message to:
VTBENNIN-L-request@rootsweb.com
or for the digest:
VTBENNIN-D-request@rootsweb.com
and simply put the text:
unsubscribe
without any other text in the body of the message.
Related Lists
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The Vermont Genealogy Discussion List (VERMONT-L) also began in January 1999. It is an email discussion list open to anyone who has an interest in genealogy in Vermont.
To subscribe to VERMONT-L, send an email message to:
VERMONT-L-request@rootsweb.com
or for the digest:
VERMONT-D-request@rootsweb.com
and simply put the text:
subscribe
without any other text in the body of the message.
You can post messages and unsubscribe from VERMONT-L following the pattern described above for the VTBENNIN-L list except that you would substitute VERMONT in place of VTBENNIN in the various addresses. There is also a VERMONT-L Home Page which contains useful data contributed by various list subscribers. For a list of other genealogy discussion lists covering New England and elsewhere, visit the Genealogy Resources on the Internet - Mailing Lists web page.
Searching the List Archives
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It is possible to search the list archives to find messages previously posted to either the VTBENNIN-L or VERMONT-L discussion lists. Messages posted to each of these lists are permanently retained and are keyword searchable. You can use the form below to search. Helpful search tips follow the form.
- Searches are not case sensitive, e.g., the search Bennington or the search BENNINGTON would retrieve the same messages.
- Boolean operators and, or, and not may be used, e.g.,
- the search ethan and allen and bennington would retrieve messages which contain all the words ethan, allen, and bennington, although these words may not necessarily appear together.
- the search arlington or sunderland would retrieve messages which contain either the word arlington or the word sunderland.
- the search allen not ethan would retrieve messages which contain the word allen but do not contain the word ethan.
- Truncation is possible by adding an asterisk to the end or middle of a word to broaden a search, e.g., the search cemeter* would retrieve messages which contain the words cemeteries, cemetery, etc.
- Phrase searching is possible by enclosing search terms in quotation marks, e.g., the search "ethan allen" would retrieve message which contain those two words appearing in consecutive order.
- Nesting of search terms is possible by enclosing search terms in parentheses, e.g., the search (bromley or peru) and smith would retrieve messages which contain either the word bromley or the word peru which also contain the word smith. Without parentheses Boolean operators execute from left to right.
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