To access the new Rootsweb Archives System, follow this procedure (at least this works for me): Go to: http://lists.rootsweb.com/~archiver/lists.html Find the surname of interest & click on the year or the month you want. Choices are: All Years, 1997, Oct, Nov. If you click on 1997, you will get a screen something like this: Parent Directory 11/ 10/ 5/ 6/ 7/ 8/ 9/ Each number relates to a month's worth of messages. Click on one of these months, and then click on the last choice of the next screen: threads.html That will give you a chronological listing of posts by title. Then you can access those you choose. All the lists I manage were transferred from MAISER in May 1997, so that is the first month available. I'm hoping the MAISER lists will also be transferred over to this screen soon. This procedure is much easier than the earlier way that was set up to look up previous postings. Sincerely, Glenn Gohr (List Manager) ggohr01@mail.orion.org