Jim, Thanx for your note. It seems we get a similar message annually, immediately after NGS or any other genealogy site offers itself for free. Followed by, "I've tried and all I can get is the home page because of the heavy traffic," or something similar. They have a kind thought, but will servers ever catch up to the # of genealogists? Walt God Bless Walter McElligott <wmcauth07@juno.com> My ebook "A Blessed Bethlehem Birth" told by Abraham and Anna Mousenstern is at <http://www.guardianangelpublishing.com/blessedbirth.htm> ================================================================= Message: 1 Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 07:15:47 -0600 From: "JIM WARCHOL" <warchol99@msn.com> Subject: Re: [COOK-CO-IL] NGS opens records for a few days To: <cook-co-il@rootsweb.com>, <alley77532@peoplepc.com> Message-ID: <BAY101-DAV1094500B79FD00701888CCA9E70@phx.gbl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" You might as well give up trying to get in. The traffic is so heavy the server can't handle it. I've tried 10 times and all I can get to is the home page which takes forever to load because of the traffic. After that, everything else times out. It was nice of NGS to open their site but it was useless to try and access it. I hope others had better luck. Jim