Dear Listers, A few small announcements, in case you haven't heard. Apologies if you get multiple copies of this message. - Subscribing to RootsWeb may now involve another step. As a further deterrent to spam, RootsWeb have added another step to the subscription process. Depending upon each list administrator's preferences, every subscription request is either reviewed and approved by the list administrator or a subscription confirmation is sent to the would-be subscriber and the instructions contained in that confirmation message must be followed in order for the subscription to be completed. - "RootsWeb Review", which recently switched from plain text to HTML, will be sent out monthly, rather than weekly (see http://blogs.rootsweb.ancestry.com/newsroom/). If you're not already subscribed to this free newsletter, go to http://newsletters.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ to enter your e-mail address. You can also use that link if you prefer to receive the newsletter in plain text rather than HTML (or vice versa) or would like to subscribe to the free "Ancestry Weekly Journal". - RootsWeb pages are now hosted on Ancestry's servers, so you may see a slight different in the way some URLs appear, but any bookmarked RootsWeb pages should work as usual. We have been told that RootsWeb will continue to be free. See <http://bigfile.rootsweb.ancestry.com/newsroom/?p=111> and <http://bigfile.rootsweb.ancestry.com/newsroom/?p=112> for more information. On a much more personal and very sad note, my father passed away 19 March. Many thanks to you who had expressed your wishes for his recovery. For the past four months I've been very involved caring for my father, which is why you haven't seen many posts from me or notices of LancsBMD updates. I'm gradually getting back to normal (whatever that is!) and will be sending you BMD updates and event info more often. On a positive note, I finally have high-speed Internet access. This necessitated a change in e-mail addresses. If you have my old addresses, lklein@mindspring.com or rwlist.admin@earthlink.net, in your address book, please replace them with rwlist.admin@verizon.net or rwlist.admin@gmail.com. Unless RootsWeb's servers are down, you can also contact me via the LISTNAME-admin@rootsweb.com address. Best wishes, Lynne