Hi Folks. First of all, Thanks for all the efforts and contributions all of you have made during 1998. I may have gotton more out of the lists and home pages than many of you. However, I hope all of you got something out of participating on the list. Thanks for those who sent in suggestions on the County and Parish home pages. The work in not done. We can add additional information about the counties to improve the pages. Some of the Counties/Parishes are more active than others. Thats' OK. All have been helpfull. I am going to give some statistics followed by some timely information about RootsWeb. By the way, since closing the Lists and changing the configuration, at least six spams have been blocked. RootsWeb sends them all to me in case they are not a spam. It looks like the spams are comming from AOL subscribers. Nice to know information: These are the counties my wife and I work with. Number on the Number on the Number of County List L list D list Queries Bullock, Al 51 20 61 Macon, Al 51 16 75 Pike, Al 170 67 271 Tallapoosa, Al 144 45 202 Jones, Ga 118 44 207 Iberia, La 45 16 78 St Martin, La 43 22 68 RADFORD 68 12 Many Surnames on the surname pages are too many to count. After scanning the pages, I think some good things are going on. Now some need to know information. RootsWeb has been providing free space to host the mail list and Gen Forum list. They also host county and state home pages. It is free to all subscribers, however it is expensive to operate. Since what I want and need to say will be long, I am going to follow up this messsage with the RootsWeb message in a separate e-mail. It is important. May all of you have a happy and productive new year. John and Jan Radford johnjanr@intersurf.com Baton Rouge, La