Hi Gang--It looks like you do have to have a membership to access ancestry.com boards--at least that is what I think. Did not know if any one knew or not but you can access the genforum.com messages through the search engine at: www.gencircles.com I found it last week before the other search engine came up. You all should try gencircles.com anyway for more information. I say this as a researcher--I do not have any association with it other than a user. Just happened on to it when I was doing a search for ARNN and found some new data. judith arnn-knight