The address for the DOVER-L Archived messages is: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?surname=D OVER-L You'll get an input screen showing our messages for 1998 and 1999. Patricia started the DOVER-L in June 1998. Pick a year AND enter your key search words in the query box. Press Search or hit the ENTER key. You'll get a complete list of the messages that contain your SEARCH WORD. You can then check each of the messages from this last screen. There could easily be 200 years of combined research experience that provided the information contained in DOVER-L, much of it researched and found before computers and the internet ....