Kathryn, Several reasons for this. 1. The Board of GENUKI decided a centralised system was required. 2. Ian Argyll who maniatined the list moved to the Cornwall pages and I took on GENUKI Hunts but not the surname list. 3. The task of maintaining such lists with the number of changing email addresses leant itself to an automated rather than manual system 4. Currently there is no method of importing the details into the new system. Each submitter needs to add to the new list. Eventually the GENUKI list will be closed and deleted but has remained open to allow those hwo have entered their names to resubmit to the new system. Your details have not been lost as the old list remains on-line. 5. Eventually the new list will allow those enquiring to search by name or area or both. The GENUKI board considers that this will increase the chance of contacts being made. Regards, Martin Edwards Webmaster My Far East http://www.myfareast.org/ Cambridgeshire History Portal http://www.cambridgeshirehistory.com Local Ancestors http://www.localancestors.com/ GenWeb Cambridgeshire http://www.rootsweb.com/~engcam GenWeb Huntingdonshire http://www.rootsweb.com/~enghun GenWeb Bedfordshire http://www.rootsweb.com/~engbdf GENUKI Cambridgeshire pages http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/CAM/ GENUKI Huntingdonshire pages http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/HUN/ GENUKI Bedfordshire pages http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/BDF/ Cambridgeshire FHS http://www.cfhs.org.uk Personal Homepages http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Martin_Edwards_2 mailto: [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: Kath Senior [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 1:36 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Huntingdon surname list I haven't subscribed to this list for a while, so I may have missed debate about the surname list but can anyone tell me why the old list has been replaced? I check it now and again and the old list, which now seems to be discontinued had all my interests on it, while neither of the new ones do. Why were the old interests not checked and transferred? Why have we now got two lists? Both have only a handful of names and it seems a terrible shame to lose the contacts of the original list, which have been built up over a couple of years at least. Best wishes Kathryn Senior