Dover-L was put together, started and is maintained by Patricia Manson. Patricia also put together the Dover Family Association GenWeb page and Dover Queries at GenConnect at RootsWeb. I don't know how Patricia does it, but am I thankful. Dover-L began in mid-June 1998. I've lost some of our messages, but I show 1,743 being posted to date: Jun-98 89 (mid month) Jul-98 164 Aug-98 134 Sep-98 140 Oct-98 94 Nov-98 298 Dec-98 194 Jan-99 167 Feb-99 273 Mar-99 187 (mid month) Probably an easier way to check archived messages along with "other names" from other sources is to use the search engine at: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/FamilyAssoc/Dover Click the "Global Search" hyperlink just under the GenConnect at RootsWeb logo. You can use any surname and narrow the searches by geographic location. I found three or four messages that were pretty important yesterday. I think of DOVER-L as the main forum for the Dover and allied family online research. Besides the grind of records we also learn some of the stories like this one from Debbie Dover Conway: "During the Civil War when Sherman marched toward the sea burning everything in sight and taking whatever would be of use to him and his troops, he passed through the very tiny community of Hillsboro, Ga. This is Monticello, Georgia in Jasper County. When he came upon the homeplace of the Dover's of course he was taking and killing and burning. My great grandfather David Harvey Dover had a pony. As they watched the horror he began to cry and beg that they not take his pony. They did not. Everything else they could take down to household goods they took but they let him keep his pony."