Posting not on subject, please read and pass on!

[Dennis Conrad]

> I am asking you all, begging you to please forward this
>   email  on  to anyone and everyone. I have a 5 year old daughter
>  named  Kelsey  Brooke Jones.
>

All concerned -

I'm very sorry to inform you that this is another sincere, but false urban
legend, perpetuated by email.

Please read over the quote below that I received from a computer-wise friend,
after I sent it to her.

Dennis Conrad
junior high teacher
Modesto, CA

<p>Whenever I get one of these notes, I always go to egosurf.com.  (You can type
any name and it will look for sites that talk about that person.  Of course,
it may not be the same person but the same name.)

Anyway, I found the name Kelsey Brooke Jones on several "urban legend" sites.
 Here is a sampling:

http://www.urbanlegends.com/ulz/kbj.html
Synopsis Kelsey Brooke Jones, a five year old girl, is missing in Minnesota.

Is it true?  Yes, it was true for about two hours. Kelsey Brooke Jones was
found and returned to her mother about two hours after being reported missing.

Police located the child watching TV at a neighbor's house shortly after
being notified by her mother. Unfortunately, someone had sent out the plea
for help and it continues to circulate long after the child was found.

When? October 1999
Comments Why shouldn't you forward these email pleas?

These pleas - like cards for Craig Shergold and Madeline Murray O'Hair's
supposed petition to ban religious broadcasting and many other examples -
continue to circulate long after any deadline or relevance. Somehow the
truth, in this case that Kelsey Brooke Jones was quickly found, never spreads
as widely or with the speed of the original plea.

<p><p>http://urbanlegends.about.com/science/urbanlegends/library/blmiss3.htm?once=true&

Guide's note:   This alert first appeared on Oct. 12, 1999 with a photo of a
blonde female child attached. . . .   Police and missing
persons databases showed no record of her disappearance and the alert was
initially labeled a hoax.

However, it now appears that Kelsey Brooke Jones does exist and went missing
for approximately two hours on October 11. She was recovered unharmed,
according to a statement from Missing Children Minnesota:

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