It tells people nothing about the families you are researching. It would be much more useful to put the family name (in capitals) the place and the date in the heading, with a separate post for each name. This makes it much easier for people searching the archives, and those who read messages in the digest form. Incidentally, having just been searching the archives, putting a list of all the names you are researching at the end of all your messages means that anyone researching any one of your names will keep coming across your messages, and may well decided to ignore all of them - you could miss that lucky break! John -- John Rouse