Hello Everyone, Due to the fact of my having to spend so much time designing web sites, especially my helping people, animals, my military and POW/MIA's I am finding it difficult to maintain all of my mailing lists. I would like to find someone to take over the three I am sending this message to. I will maintain the others. Don't get me wrong, normally they are easy to maintain, but I am just too involved. The last 3 weeks I have just been collecting mail so I would not lose it. If I can spot real quick, that a message is from someone on the list I will answer it as quickly as I can, but I have some that are that old that I have not even been able to answer. I would hate that to be from someone regarding a question about the list. It is not fair to the people on any of my lists. I am not asking someone to take them all. Someone might want to take just one, or maybe two. That is fine. There is no rush to do this, I will keep maintaining them as long as needed. When I do find someone, I will then see about having them transferred. Now regarding about taking them over, (I have to find out yet), when we came from MAISER we were taken freely because that is how it was there. I do sponsor Rootsweb to maintain my lists, but I didn't have to. If they are transferred I don't know if they will need to be sponsored or not. The fee is normally $25.00 a year for two lists. I would imagine if someone wanted to take just one, and because of the change they MIGHT charge a fee I am sure $12.00 for the year they would accept. It takes a lot of money to run Rootsweb, I believe the last I heard the next year would run Brian and Karen about $300,000.00. As every thing is growing it takes more equipment to maintain Rootsweb. There are donors, so they help too. I do not want to discourage someone from taking one of the lists, please don't get me wrong. They probably would just let the change over go through without any fees. I will know more about this for sure later. The only thing will be taking the ALLEN-NE-list over. This must stay limited to the New England, NY, NJ and PA areas only, as it was originally set up. There is already another ALLEN list, so there is no sense having a second one. Neil Allen runs the other one and has a very good list. So if any one is interested in doing this just let me know. I will still be maintaining the other two lists, BUCKLEY and STRAIGHT. Thank you, Sharon Straight List Owner for surname mailing lists - ALLEN-NEW-ENGLAND/NY/NJ/PA - BIRD - BUCKLEY - DRUMM and STRAIGHT. Srearching for ALLEN (NY); BERRY (PA, WI); BRISTOL (NY, WI); BUCKLEY (IRE, NY, MI); CONNOLLY (IRE, MI); DRUMM (OH); GARRISON (TN, KY); JENKINS (OH); KAUFFMAN (OH, WI); LITTLE (SCOT, CANADA, MI); PUGH (IL); RAMSEY (NC, KY); SELBY (IN); and WORKMAN (NC, TN, KY)