CRERAR Listmembers..... You may have noticed on other Lists that Rootsweb has changed the way the SENDER of a Post is shown. The goal is to keep the Lists safer from hacking, spam receipt and other invasion related problems Lists have had in past months. The changes seem to pretty much be done, however its likely to be an ongoing process with new defenses coming and going. All your current and future Posts will be sent as you have always done with the eMail addresses you've always used. Receiving Posts has not changed. Just watch carefully when you construct a REPLY to make sure it goes to the right place.....the actual SENDER or the LIST. Since many of us have differing eMail software, the way the message headings are shown can be radically different from patron to patron. For now, the SENDER is still visible but not exactly as before. Rootsweb now shows several headings including Sender, Receiver and List Name but may show more items like Reply To and CC [carbon copy, means 'also sent to']. When you hit REPLY to send an answer to any Post you may have read, just watch to see what ADDRESS it is going to. It may be the actual SENDER who personally is getting your reply, or it may be the LIST itself that is getting your reply. BEFORE the changes, the SENDER was a PERSON...someone who Posted a message to a Rootsweb Mailing List. NOW, the SENDER is considered to be the LIST you are subscribed to. the robot computer that does all the sorting and sending to the various Lists and Message Boards is sending your post, it makes a big difference in how to keep toxic bits out of the Lists and out of Rootsweb in general. For the 16 Lists I Admin, a REPLY is set up to go to the entire LIST. It will stay that way........just watch to be sure a personal message isn't going to the whole List Meg Greenwood / Oklahoma USA/ List Admin for CRERAR Send queries to ME here..... CRERAR-admin@rootsweb.com Search Mailing Lists here ...... http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ You do NOT need to be subscribed to READ posts in any List, just to POST. Excuse the CAPS, they are to focus on the changes. ====================================

Ancestry is closing ALL of its Mailing Lists on March 2.  ONLY the past messages [called the List Archives] will remain viewable in the future.  ALL Message Boards, however, will remain open as usual. There are no 'new' Mailing Lists being made by Ancestry to replace the current ones expiring now.  Each Listowner [Manager] can begin a new List somewhere else on the internet if they are able to, however that is a task that is difficult to complete for many current Listowners including myself. There is a website called Groups.io that some of the Listowners have selected as a place they are going to start up a Mailing List like Rootsweb had for their surnames of interest or locations.  I will be starting a Groups List for some of the surnames I have an interest in however not all have been active for several years, there are no subscribers for many of the surname Lists I formerly managed.  This CRERAR List had only 2 subscribers and that was over 2 years ago.  I will get a few of these surname Lists started this week at Groups.io however it won't be all.  Anyone reading this will need to go to the homepage [Groups.io] and look above the elephant herd picture on the left side of blue bar for the clickable phrase Find Or Creat A Group.  A new page will then appear with a box on the left side showing topics, one is a search By Name.  Enter CRERAR [or any other surname you might be researching] and see if any Group has been created yet. Joining is FREE and it seems to be a bit more user friendly than before. Please read Dick Eastman's blurb on the Ancestry shutdown of these Lists and how Groups.io works... https://blog.eogn.com/2020/01/10/groups-io-the-do-it-yourself-replacement-for-disappearing-message-boards-and-mailing-lists/ Tiny URL is this...      https://tinyurl.com/wravfcf Its a rather long discussion though it quikly covers a lot of needed topics for internet users and explains options other than signing up at Groups.io.  To subscribe, basically you find the Crerar Group [after I set it up, it will show upon searching for Crerar surname] The surname page has a tab or button to click saying you want to JOIN it.  Of course a Password and eMail address are going to be needed by then to complete the sign up. You receive a welcoming eMail and learn how to send comments, questions, pictures and data to the List and how to UNsubscribe later.  Consider personally starting a surname group for any of your own family names. I do hope this small group of ours gets active again and that Groups.io will be a safe, sincere and simple solution to losing the Mailing Lists.  I will post to the new CRERAR List once it gets started.  Hope we get some new subscribers !  Meg Greenwood / Former Admin for Ancestry's Crerar Mailing List =========================================================