Rootsweb hosts IRC at the International Internet Genealogical Society (IIGS). Visit our web site at http://www.iigs.org/ . The IIGS IRC service is the IIGS's first tool for genealogists, hosted by Rootsweb. Set up exclusively for genealogy, the IIGS IRC is open 24 hours per day so genealogists around the world can meet. To access this service, direct your IRC client to irc.IIGS.org, or irc.rootsweb.com, port 6667 or 7000. For help with using the IIGS IRC service email Graham Hart graham_hart@ibm.net, Wendy Garner scooby@marsweb.com, Laura Cook <orphans1@mc.net> or Holly Fee-Timm <hollyft@bright.net. Three regular general genealogy meetings have been scheduled to accommodate the various time zones. All are welcome to attend any or all of them. Meetings will be held on the IIGS IRC server on the channel #IIGS-meet, at the following times: GMT --- Sat 20:00 Sun 01:00 Sun 11:00 THEMED SESSIONS. USmil-genealogy. Meet every Sunday between 19:00 and 22:00 GMT on channel #IIGS-USMil. We will be researching the United States military genealogy from the Revolutionary war through to Desert Storm, concentrating on methods for finding our relatives who served in these wars and what they did. UK-genealogy. Meet every Tuesday from 20:00 GMT on channel #IIGS-UKgen. Anyone researching in the UK is welcome to attend. This meeting is intended as a get together for people researching UK ancestors, both from in the UK and from outside the UK. The intention is to have more regular communication between people.. e.g. If you are having a discussion on the UK and Ireland newsgroup then bring it with you and have an interactive discussion about it. Bring your surnames and see if anyone else is researching in your area. Bring your books with you and see if you can help others. NEW This week on Sunday 20th July, at 18:00 GMT, we launch the first Belgium-Netherlands-Luxembourg chat on channel #IIGS-BNL Bring your surnames to IIGS IRC and join us in discussing research in these areas. For conversions to your time zone, a useful Web site is http://www.admin.uow.edu.au/iigs/time_chart.html Best wishes Camilla