Rootsweb has just instituted a new feature for us genealogy researchers. Most Listowners also manage Suites of Boards for their Surname, County, State, etc. There has always been a problem with the Boards in that some researchers posted queries and replies ONLY to the Boards and unless Listowners copied the messages and forwarded to the Lists, very few people actually saw them. Now, we Listowners have the option of having Board messages forwarded to the appropriate Mailing List. I have activated this function for one List so far, GERMANNA_COLONIES-L. This weekend I hope to configure the corresponding Boards for all the Mailing Lists I manage. What this means is that when someone posts to a Board, that message will show up on the corresponding Mailing List. It is necessary that all you subscribers are aware of this, so that you can reply to the appropriate email address. If you see a post here on the Lists, be sure to look at the headers to see if it came from a Board. If so, and you reply, you will need to send to the email address of the sender, as many Board posters are not subscribers of the corresponding List. MAKE SURE you also CC: the List on which the post appears, so that we may all see your reply. You can identify which posts are forwarded from the GC-Connect Boards. The FROM: will be: gc-gateway@rootsweb.com Regards, SgtGeorge George W. Durman Knoxville, TN