Thanks to all of you nice people who answered my post about Ancestry.com's slowness. Yes, I agree, it depends on how many people are using the site. My computer is new and I have Bresnan / ATT&T and they are the fastest internet providers we have found. I'm working on a genealogy book and I work on it about 4 or 5 hours a day and all the other sites I go to for research are fast. If Ancestry is giving away free, time that can be the answer too as they are usually pretty fast. Thanks again you guys, I got a lot of input both on and off the list. Fern