Venting! I don't begrudge Rootsweb the right to develop whatever resources they wish and to post anything they want on their site. However, I just followed the State Resources link from the main RW page and I'm bleeping mad that there is not a single link back to any of my county pages, none of which reside on RWs server. I have plenty of links to theirs! What's more RW is forcing the GenConnect system down the throats of the CCs whether they want it or not. I never particularly liked it for queries or surnames, preferring a guestbook kind of layout, so I never signed up. Besides that I wanted them to be searchable on my site along with all the other resources I have available ON MY SITE. Sort of one-stop shopping, if you will. I like simplicity. As things stand now someone else can come along and set up a query system that competes with mine even though I've been maintaining my boards for three years! This really stinks folks. This is the USGenWeb Project and RW operates in partnership (for better or worse) with USGW not in competition with it. Since it's a partnership, it shouldn't matter where our pages and resources are are housed. But increasingly it certainly does! I am not anti-RW. I'm a [small-time but still a] sponsor. I just don't like anyone "Bigfoot-ing it" all over me and others in the same position. B.J. Smothers, mad as a hatter in Dallas, Wilcox, Marengo counties and Atlanta, GA