Following are guidelines and resources for the BURKE list. Please! Please!! Please!!! PLEASE!!!! DO NOT send any virus alerts, missing children reports, chain letters, jokes, poems, recipes or etcetera to any Genealogy Discussion List. Cyndi created a webpage to aid fellow genealogists in understanding some of the mysteries of the Internet regarding misconceptions, rumors, virus hoaxes and other bits of misinformation floating about. Please visit the following website regarding "Internet Stuff You Need to Know". http://www.cyndislist.com/internet.htm There are real viruses and worms which are attached to newsgroup and e-mail messages as an attachment. You cannot get infected with these viruses and worms just by reading a newsgroup or e-mail message. You have to execute the attachment (double click on the attached file). Upon being executed into a computer, some destroy files and others send emails and newsgroup postings without a user's knowledge. To review the latest published information on real viruses, please visit the following website: http://www.antivirus.com/trendsetter/virus_report/ Rootsweb has developed a cluster of resource tools for researching surnames. To view the resources for researching BURKE, please direct your browser to the following website. http://resources.rootsweb.com/surnames/b/u/BURKE/ Other free-access genealogy websites which may assist in identifying your ancestors are as follows: Ancestry World Tree at Ancestry.com: http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/usersub/worldtree/main.htm#search LDS Ancestral File, International Genealogical Index: http://familysearch.org/. RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project: http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi GenForum Website; http://genforum.genealogy.com/burk/ Please feel free to ask me any questions about surfing genealogy sites on the Internet, including RootsWeb. Happy Huntin' Jim Young List Moderator and RootsWeb Donor ------------------------ It is not mandatory to pay a user fee to subscribe to any RootsWeb surname discussion list, post queries and search archived messages. However, by becoming a Contributor, Sponsor, or Donor in exchange for specified benefits, you will help RootsWeb provide: (1) mailing lists for thousands of groups of genealogists with shared interests; (2) search engines to make huge amounts of genealogical data freely available to Internet genealogists; and, (3) Web and FTP space on thousands of genealogical topics. Explore the services provided by RootsWeb at the following URL: http://www.rootsweb.com