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How do you get others involved?

How do you get others involved?

Posted: 29 Jan 2002 1:51PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 2 Mar 2003 10:43PM GMT
I started writing and publishing a PA Flores family newsletter, Floriculture, in January of 2000. I prepared six monthly issues and sent them by mail and e-mail to the relatives on record at our MyFamily site and other listings. In the newsletter I asked for contributions, suggestions, new information, but got zero response. All it became was a report on my research on the origins of the family and discoveries of descendents of the first immigrants who arrived in Phila. in 1739. It was a lot of work with no feedback, so I decided to just prepare an e-mail version and post it on the MyFamily site. Are all family newsletters a one-person show, or is there some effective way to get contributions and responses? In other words, how do you get others involved?
Ronald Flores
Conrad Flores(c1690-1764)> Michael FLORES (c1714-1773) > Johann Michael (1757-1799) > Salomon (1788-1869) > Reuben (1822-1884) > Thomas Jefferson (1851-1916) > William Franklin (1889-1960) > Charles Richard >1914-1989) > Ronald Charles (1940-).

Re: How do you get others involved?

CindyF (View posts)
Posted: 29 Jan 2002 7:07PM GMT
Classification: Query
Ronald~

There is a sister list to this board at Rootsweb: FAMILY-NEWSLETTERS-L. This board doesn't gateway to the list at this point, but it may one day.

Anyway, the list has been around a bit longer than this board and the subject you mentioned has come up on more than one occasion.

Recently, we've discussed how to involve "the silent" ones:
http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/FAMILY-NEWSLETTERS/2002...

You might also enjoy browsing the archives, to read some of the many interesting discussions and suggestions that have come up:
http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/family-newsletters

Best wishes with your newsletter,

Cindy
http://znap.to/banegas

Re: How do you get others involved?

glen withnell (View posts)
Posted: 23 Jan 2004 7:19AM GMT
Classification: Query
It might be that you are not really letting them know what you are talking about. If you talk in term that they dont know they may not know what you are talking about. Let them know in terms that they can understand and Ill bet you'll get better response.
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