Hi Mary I don't know if you are aware of it, but many of the surname forums on Rootsweb are set up so a message posted to the forum is automatically sent to the equivalent surname list. This way a message can be posted to the forum and everyone who subscribes to the list will also receive a copy of the message. Personally I would like to see all the surname forum's and lists set up this way. It is my belief that someone just starting out in genealogy will be able to find a surname forum a lot easier that they'll be able to find the list archives.for a particular surname. I don't know how you get the forum and list linked together but Rootsweb should be able to help you. I would also like to suggest that anyone who finds a Cousineau obituary post it to the forum/list. I have been finding that many of the newspapers are starting to charge to view their archives. Most of them will let you view an obituary for free for the a short period of time and after that time is up, they won't let you view it unless you pay approximately $3. If we can catch them during the free period and post them to the forum/list then they will be there indefinitely for future researchers to view without having to pay a fee. Dave At 08:00 AM 9/28/2002 -0600, you wrote: >Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 14:45:18 -0500 >From: "Bird" <bird@glasgow-ky.com> >To: COUSINEAU-L@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <011001c2665e$68481a70$65ea240c@marytoy> >Subject: Listowner message >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >Dear Cousins and List subscribers, >I see more and more people posting to the message boards and less and less >to the list. > as listowner I want to stir up some activity. > I know you guys can post more. I am going to ask each subscriber, to post >one message a month to the list. I don't think this will be a burden on >you. > I understand that some of us are sick, some may be moving, some may have >broken computer some of us may have family sickness. Life does happen and >I'm not going to keep track. >Love to everyone >Mary Harkey Russell >bird@glasgow-ky.com >http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~bird