> > Pardon me but as I can get onto the Rootsweb site, I shall see if mail is > working.... > > Adrian B It will probably be days before things return to normal. Ancestry and Rootsweb crashed under a heavy co-ordinated DDOS attack on the 16th and they've been working on the fix ever since. Rootwebs came back up here in the states last night, and I began getting emails again this afternoon. Brian PS. More than likely everyone is going to start sending test pings and make it all worse before it gets better.