Anne I have transferred this to the DISCUSS list. My own personal thoughts are that we are getting into the realms of trying to complicate the message. We already advise visitors to the site that the database is being updated to add new records and will be completed by ****. This seems to say it all. Allan Raymond [email protected] http://www.btinternet.com/~allan_raymond/Monarchies_of_Europe.htm FreeBMD - putting birth marriages and deaths on the Internet http://FreeBMD.rootsweb.com/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anne Cruise" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: 11 October 2001 00:18 Subject: Re: Heavy overload of server Good day. If I didn't belong to this list/these lists, I would never have known/understood that the update takes the form it does. (But I did get it sorted quite quickly, I must say.) In my naivete (sorry, can't be doing with searching for accents this time of night) I thought at first that you would do just that: add the new records to the database. Mind you, I couldn't understand why the database wasn't actually updated *each* time a new record was added, either. When I build a database on my PC I can continually add records *and* search as I build it, so I transferred that idea to the F/BMD database. The idea of a separate database of records added in the last month that *aren't* accessible or searchable was a bit foreign. And then to build a new database when you have a perfectly good one that is just lacking a few more entries! Well! So: not the present message but a new one perhaps about the database that explains: We are currently rebuilding the database to incorporate the records transcribed in the last month. We expect this new database to be searchable after (insert date). If you have searched on this site since (insert date of last rebuild), no new records will be available until the rebuild is complete, which we expect to be after (insert date *again*). You probably won't catch the perennial searchers who don't even look at the opening message, but you might start training newcomers...! Best Wishes Anne Cruise