Hal has written: >Wanda, please don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining, just curious. A >lot of the digests are composed of recent or not so recent obituaries... >How does this help do genealogical research? Or are there other reasons? > Again, not a complaint, just questioning......... I'm not offended at all by your question. I do post obits on my mailing lists when I find them as I believe they do have genealogical significance - especially when the obit is of an older person and it lists their parents' names, etc. I have had a couple of people on my FARRIS list who have found significant connections by contacting the family members listed in the obits. I have had so many positive comments about the obit postings, I continue to do them. If anyone out there is interested, I obtain these from the GEN-OBIT Mailing List. This list is an index of the obituaries appearing in most of the major newspapers across the country. Volunteers enter the obits in index form and if you find an obit you are interested in, you contact the volunteer contributor and they will e-mail you the full obit. Wanda Rabb researching RABB (NC/SC), (GANTT (NC), NIX, ROBERTSON, WILSON, CONNER, JONES (Rutherford Co.NC), LAWS (Yancey,Rutherford Co., NC), EDWARDS & KELLEY (NC), CAUSBY & PATTON (Burke/McDowell Co., NC) PAXTON (Union Co, NC > Lancaster, SC), FARRIS & MORRIS (York Co., SC) LOVELACE, HAMRICK, GREEN, and MCSWAIN (Cleveland Co., NC) Listmanager for CAUSBY, FARRIS, LAWS, NIX, PAXTON and RABB Family Mailing LIsts Homepage: http://www.netunlimited.net/~wcr Genealogy Main Page: http://www.netunlimited.net/~wcr/main.html