Hi Listers, and Season's Greetings to all, Just to add to this subject...being fairly new to this List and to Rootsweb Lists in general, I was also wondering about the protocol on answering requests. But, I came to the conclusion that the whole idea of subscribing to these lists is to talk back and forth about family history subjects related to the area that interest you so that everyone can be included in the 'discussion'. In addition, it also gets a little confusing to know what you've sent to the list and what to an individual and sometimes we 'List watchers' only get half the story! I think it's a very quick matter to delete the messages that aren't relevent to my field of interest. If we all just sent messages back and forth to each other in the background - then this List would become redundant and we would end up with no list activity at all - except perhaps for a few NEW queries from time to time. I have already noticed on this list where someone recently said something like - there doesn't seem to be too much being discussed on this List. Perhaps, if we all had the chance to read what people are discussing and researching, then we'd feel included and all learn something. Congratulations to Danielle, Best wishes, Marlene