I hope everyone's holiday is warm & wonderful, filled with family & friends - the things that matter most. I want to thank all of you for being wonderful list members and sharing with each other. There are now over 2200 files on my site - what started out to be a few record files from Middlesex County has expanded to the rest of Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Jersey, New York and my home state of Michigan. Thanks go to Coralynn Brown, Janece Streig, Dave Swerdfeger, Ray Brown and everyone else who has contributed to the collection of data. Once again with the holidays and all those new computers and/or genealogy software that many will find under the tree today, we'll see an influx of new members in the days and weeks to come. Please remember that we were once all "newbies" and make them feel welcome. The list has been pretty quiet recently, so I think that after New Year's we'll have a roll call of our Middlesex County ancestors & brick walls. For those of you who don't want your mailboxes flooded with messages, there's plenty of time to switch from the List version where every message is delivered separately to the Digest version where you'll get to see all the messages, but they'll be in a single email. To do this send a message to CTMIDDLE-L-request@rootsweb.com that contains the word unsubscribe and then send a message to CTMIDDLE-D-request@rootsweb.com that contains the word subscribe To switch back to the List mode, just reverse the process. I'll send another message before January 1st with the details of the roll call and we'll have it for the period of *1 week* from January 1st to January 7th.. Again, have a wonderful holiday! Take care.. Jane list mom http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jdevlin/