Dear Evans Listmembers, Is there anyone out there who knows enough about the Evans history in the US to shunt various lines into some sort of identifying groupings? I mean something like Evanses of Texas; etc. However that might be too narrow; so what about using one's own immigration/geographical descent lineage. Using my own line as an example..... Evans: Md, Pa, Oh, Ky, In, La That way... anyone who knew they had relatives in Md, Pa, Oh, Ky, In, La would know that there was someone "out there" who did too. They could then identify each place they might have relatives in common. It might be helpful to use this geographical descent lineage as part of our ongoing "signature" to whatever email we send. Or, is there some way to subdivide the general Evans category to make it more manageable? Can anyone more familiar with Rootsweb organization speak to this? Perhaps the easiest is just, as previously mentioned, to subdivide our Evans list on our own by using the Subject line: An example: Subject: Evans> Md, Pa, Oh, Ky, In, La -- info needed on Robert Evans of Louisiana We could use this same methodology in posting messages to the Evans board as well as to the Evans mailing list. An additional aside: I find it totally confusing when someone replied to an email message or digest simply by hitting "Reply," and without changing the subject line to reflect the current topic.... [For example their subject remains: EVANS Digest, Vol 2, Issue 75 -- and does not reflect the topic they are writing about; e.g.: Evans family in Texas] Also very confusing is when someone just hits "Reply" and thereby copies the entire digest in their reply. A two sentence message from them is followed by 20 paragraphs of the digest they have responded to. This uses up a lot of space, and totally confuses the readers. How to avoid this? In our responses, we: [1] delete everything in the digest but the specific message we are referring to; then we [2] change the subject to reflect the topic of the message we are currently sending. This makes searching or identifying what the reader can respond to infinitely clearer and easier. Just some thoughts, Renee Evans: Md, Pa, Oh, Ky, In, La