Jan S - Orlando, FL jans884@bellsouth.net Outgoing Mail Is Virus Scanned by Norton Antivirus 2003 This was sent to me from someone on another list. I only copy and pasted a snip of what it says. http://www.petitiononline.com/ethan/petition.html Check this out! Sign the petition and forward to everyone you know who does research. State and Federal Archives Archive Record Access To the US State and Federal Archives We of the family history online community support free online access to those records which your archives hold and which we need for research of our family ancestors. This includes, but is not limited to, such records as Wills, Deeds and Tax lists from the 1600s, 1700s and 1800s. You have been entrusted with documents that date back to the beginning of this country. You do not own these records but they are public documents, long since being added to the public domain. Many documents date from the 1600s. Many of you, in particular Virginia and now Maryland, charge outrageous prices to duplicate microfilm for private individuals i.e. $40.00 to $50.00/ roll and in the majority of cases it is the elderly of our community that is doing this research and have limited resources or are living on fixed incomes. You have failed to put even the indexes to such records online, although when we wish to order an individual document you demand that we give you a specific site and inform us you do not do research or you charge even more outrageous fees to do a reference look up. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ==== LAORLEAN Mailing List ==== Louisiana Cemeteries list http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Cemeteries/LA-CEMETERIES.html ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237