Apologies to members of this mailing list who are not also members of the Anglo-Italian Family History Society, but the following message is rather urgent. We have had increasing problems delivering email copies of Italian Roots and messages to email members, because some ISPs are blocking them as spam. Members with AOL or BTinternet accounts seem to be the worst affected, but others are also having difficulties receiving our emails and attachments, sometimes because of the high security settings they have set up on their computers. For this reason we have set up a private members' group on Yahoo!, through which society emails can be distributed and the journals can be downloaded. IF YOU ARE AN EMAIL MEMBER THE JOURNAL WILL NO LONGER BE SENT TO YOU BY EMAIL (THOUGH YOU WILL RECEIVE A MESSAGE WHEN THE NEW JOURNAL IS POSTED TO THE SITE). You must therefore join the group to receive the journal. Invitations with instructions of how to join were sent last weekend to all members who have provided us with email addresses, whether email or postal members. However, only a small percentage of these emails appear to have been received and acted upon. If you have not already joined, please follow this link: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AIFHSmembers/ Alternatively, you can send an email message to: AIFHSmembers-subscribe@yahoogroups.com Please include your membership number in the body of the email so that your application to join can be processed quickly - membership of the group is restricted to current paid-up members of the Anglo-Italian Family History Society. If anyone has any problems with joining please contact either myself or the vice chair Julie at anglers.rest@virgin.net. The October issue of Italian Roots will be uploaded to the group site in the next few days and you really wouldn't want to miss this bumper issue! Best wishes, Elaine -- Elaine Collins Chair, Anglo-italian Family History Society 3 Calais Street London SE5 9LP 020 7274 7809 http://anglo-italianfhs.org.uk