Jocele

I am guessing a possible explanation to your problem is as follows.

There are three main mailing lists dealing with Banat matters.

1 AKdFF list which is run by the Donauschwaben society based in Sindelingen Germany and tends to be confined to AKdFF members.  Here you can find the heavy hitters in Banat matters.

2 Donauschwaben list which is open to anyone who subscribes at genealogy.net and can be conducted in German, English and probably French.

3 Banat list which is doubtless the list you are presently subscribed to, run by David Preston out of the US  and will take messages in most languages.

Frequently a message will appear on one list and the reply will be copied on one of the other lists.  This appears to be the case in the present case------the original message came on the AKdFF list but in my reply I copied it to the Banat list,  As a result you never saw the original unless you also had subscribed to the AKdFF list.

Some people who subscribe to these lists are narrowly focused only on their own families.  But, in truth, in family history work one is not a matter of looking for family ancestors but instead looking for records which might contain data of interest.  Thus it is a search for and an understanding of record keeping, archives and the location of records.  Much can be learned about record keeping by viewing a wide range of mailing lists, forms and similar websites and libraries.     

Dave Dreyer