Hi All, As you can see.... at long last.... our little list is back on line after almost two weeks. Hooray! [You should have all received Volume 46, if you are receiving messages in the digest format] Now we have to figure out... as the issues start to come.... if everything we had posted[ before we discovered the list had gone dead] shows up... If not ... if your message appears to have been lost, you'll need to resend. You ought to be able to do that easily by going through your Send folder and just forwarding the same message to Degruy-L@rootsweb.com. Please understand that until we are all caught up with the backlog of materials, we may be getting some "double" entries. Rootsweb advised that this might happen.... but they felt that it would be better to receive some messages twice than not to receive them at all. This would also be a good time for anyone who is on the list who has never introduced themselves to do so. Tell us, if you are comfortable doing so, who you are and where you are and how you are connected to the Degruys.... Tell us what your stumbling blocks are and what you'd like to "get out of" the list. Let us know if you have any information handed down from your relatives that could help the rest of the folks on the list do a better job in "filling in" any gaps we might have in our information. Eventually we hope to have our own web site where we will be able to post photographs, and scans of other primary data. Keep in mind that we are always interested in photocopies and transcriptions of primary data as that is the very best way to get the true information. A lot of "misinformation" floats around on the Internet and one of the goals of Degruy-L is to try to begin to correct any mistakes any of us may have inadvertently entered into our data. I look forward to hearing from all of you. In fact, it would greatly help me if you would just respond with something simple like "I've received a message from Rootsweb today" and sign your name. That way I'll know who is receiving the backlogged messages. I don't know about you, but I'm very glad that we are up and running again. Renee in St. Louis ps... when you respond to a list message or a digest, do not include the entire digest in your response. In other words, when you hit "reply" take the time to delete everything that gets copied into your new message that does not apply to what you are responding too. The messages get way too long if you don't take time to do this. For example, I hit "reply" in composing this message, but as you see, the entire digest of volume #46 does not appear below. That's because I deleted it before I wrote this message....If you don't understand what I'm trying to convey, contact me offlist.