There is an email list for the BUMSTEAD surname and its variants -- Bumpstead, Bumsted, Bumstede, Bomstead, Baumstead, Bomsted, etc. To subscribe to the list, send a message with the word "subscribe" (without the quotation marks) to:
-- BUMSTEAD-REQUEST@rootsweb.com
You will receive a welcome email from the list server telling you how to use the list.
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This is a bulletin or message board. Items posted here are "permanent", but you don't see them unless you visit the board.
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An email forum or list is "real time". You receive an email as soon as someone sends one to the list. (It is also permanent as there is a searchable archive of each email list.)
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Any messages posted to this bulletin board are relayed to the email forum so, if you want a message to be seen by people just "passing through", post it to this bulletin board. Everyone subscribed to the list will also see it.
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The advantage of the list is (1) it is "real time" and (2) you will know whenever someone posts something to the bulletin board.
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(Anyone can post to this bulletin board; only those who subscribe can send emails to the list.)
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If you are researching any of these surnames, please join us on the email forum.
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thanks,
Tom Cloud
board and list administrator