This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/zU.2ADE/468.1.1 Message Board Post: Yes, I'm sure there are some "good volunteers" on the site you sent. However the rules for there says send "your request to only one volunteer". So apparently when I sent mine to a volunteer in the Phoenix area (Maricopa) a year or so ago I chose the wrong one as my request was never acknowledged. Volunteers from RAOGK site are unresponsive also. With my requests (1999-2000) with help from Phoenix I had two people to respond. One was not even a volunteer, but had read my request in a forum board. He did look up the name in a city directory and sent me the info. The other person was a "joke". This past spring I requested help from Tucson (Pima) and sent the request to the two volunteers listed at RAOGK--neither even acknowledge my request and still haven't. I didn't bother with the site you sent because of the rule--"request to only one volunteer"---(how long after sending the request to ONE are you suppose to wait before sending to another????) Now I'm trying again and YOU are the only person who has responded. I'm looking for an obit for CHARLES FREEMAN STITES JR---do not know where he died, but know the date, February 1966. His last known residence was Tucson Arizona when his father passed away in 1956.--If someone would just look in the city directory for 1965-1966 to see if he is listed would be a great help. Back to volunteers from Phoenix area. I recently received a request for a lookup in Evansville IN and the lady asking for the lookup lived near Phoenix----guess what we exchanged lookups---she found what I was searching for in Phoenix. For that I am very grateful, as are the people I do research for. As a volunteer I respond to every request within 24 hours of receiving it and give the person an estimated time of lookup. I totally understand that some volunteers are over loaded and cannot keep up with their requests and or for family-work-personal reasons cannot do looks at the time they received it--but what I have a problem with is the fact that some DO NOT even acknowledge they received a request. I would much prefer to be told NO, then nothing.