At present Rootsweb has identified that their list messages are not being accepted for customers of America On-Line and the aol additional ISPs of Compuserve, Netscape and Wmconnect. Copies of this message are being sent to the individual Ortenau List members who use those ISPs with the hopes that at least one copy of the message does reach them. However, as a safety factor for those aol customers, some of this information may be repeated in a later List message. Your List Administrator has notified me of an additional benefit he has given us at the companion web site of < http://ortenau.speedyspace.de/search/ >. Check out that web site and click on the word "Links" at the top-of-the-page toolbar. From that click you will reach his new page where various bits of information about Baden and its towns are being listed with their web page links. This is a work in process and additional individual links will be added on an irregular basis, anywhere from later today to some unknown future time. For any web site listed click on (or copy and paste) the individual link to reach that additional page. Certainly this is a wonderful Christmas present to us from Wendelin. I'm certain he hopes you will find some information of interest and value in your quest for your ancestors. For myself, I only can offer each of you a Merry Christmas and then I'm off to do my own "ripping the paper" off Wendelin's present to us hoping that I find something new and of interest for my search. djweber [email protected]