For those of you who do not subscribe to the GERMANNA_COLONIES Mailing List at Rootsweb, I have relinquished the Admin duties for that List and Marc Wheat, President of the Germanna Foundation, is now the Admin. I haven't explained fully to now why I'm giving up the List, nor why I'm giving up some other Germanna-related Lists. Well, to put it briefly, I have too much on my plate. I've ignored other duties and responsibilities I have in my personal life and need to concentrate on them more. Also, most of this year I have been working with the U.S. Census Bureau, and when doing so, I just didn't have much time to devote to managing the Mailing Lists. And... the Bureau is getting ready to ramp up more phases of the project, which doesn't just involve the actual Census that will start in January, but many other projects as well. I've been a Crew Leader for past projects that involved quality control and accuracy of the counting. Starting this month, I will begin on yet another phase, which will last through February and probably March. Then, once that's completed, start on another phase around the end of April. This goes on through 2010 and into 2011! Work a couple of months, rest a couple of months, then work some more. It's not a full-time job, but after a phase is over I found it took me many weeks to get rested up and be able to concentrate on anything. Anyway, I need to do some traveling with my wife when I'm not working. We've put off having a real vacation for a long time and need to have one before we're too danged old to enjoy it. Plus, we need to travel over the eastern part of the country, doing some research on her family, and possibly to England where her YATES ancestors originated. To that end, here are the Rootsweb Mailing Lists that I would like to turn over to those researching the surnames: CRECELIUS CLAAR (It would be nice if the present Admin for CLORE would take this one.) KLUG* LOTSPEICH* RUPP* I'm keeping the Germanna-related BRILES, BROYLES, WILHITE, and WILHOIT Lists and some of the non-Germanna-related Lists. Some of the later I'm going to give up also. If anyone is interested in assuming Admin duties for the above 5 Germanna-related Lists, please email me privately. Those 5 Lists have very little traffic and are not difficult to manage. The 3 Lists followed by asterisks also have matching Message Boards at Rootsweb/Ancestry and I would prefer that whoever adopts each of them also take over the Boards., I'll still be around on all the Lists and Boards, so don't think I'm gone for good. And, I'll see all of you in July at the Reunion. Sarge (P.S. I sent CC's to the Germanna-related Lists I'm keeping just so you would know what is going on.)