I think there is a lot of exaggeration going on here. I only posted to five boards all next to one another. The reason, if not obvious, is that they cover an area where the paper trail, and Y-DNA, suggest my paternal line comes from. When it comes to things like this a single county is too small, especially when it borders several other counties. I am not affiliated to any company at all and am just a genealogist like most of yourselves. Two posters in particular have mislead you all about this, however. > ------------------------------> Subject: Re: [WOR] Worcs Gene Pool (Dave Newburuy)> To: Bob New [email protected] > While I think the discussion itself was fascinating, I think Dave's > concern is that it was clear that the poster who started it (Mr. Happy) > had quite clearly spammed many, many of these mailing lists, with > virtually the same post.> > I don't think the desire to shut down the discussion was anything more > than trying to stop the original poster from benefitting from their spam. _________________________________________________________________ Win 100’s of Virgin Experience days with BigSnapSearch.com http://www.bigsnapsearch.com