I want to make a clarification. The other day/night I spent many hours searching through ebay's list of antique books/manuscripts. I was looking for myself, but decided that it might be nice to make a list of things available that someone on the genealogical lists might be interested in. I posted this information in seven different letters to four lists. (I had done the same some months ago with Antique Bibles.) I have absolutely no connection to ebays. It was a "labor of love", nothing more. The one listowner wrote back that he did not post them because someone else had already posted a link. That's his prerogative, even if I don't agree. I got some very nice letters back from the third list. In fact, a couple of people found books on their families from the lists I posted. (And the fourth list was this one, which took it in the way it should have been taken. Some rather lengthy information that one could read or delete as one wished. *smile*) However, the second listowner sent me a rather nasty letter implying that I worked for ebay's and was receiving a commission (not true!) and/or that I might have something to do with their security break-in. I replied to him in a civilized manner and explained, but I also asked for an apology. Things went downhill fast, with this man banning me from his list. This is alright also, I had already decided to unsubscribe and it is his right. However, evidentally afterwards he posted a rather insulting letter to his list, without of course, my being able to reply in my own defense. I got some other nasty mail as a consequence. (This particular owner also became rather sexist besides calling me a "witch".) The whole point is, that when you run into people like this, you lose all interest in trying to help others. I've tried to do my small part of sharing information, but I've lost all desire to do that now. I'm sorry, but the ones who suffer might be the ones whose surname I found somewhere and would have passed on. Barbara R. sayona@telepath.com