At 6:34 PM -0400 6/10/02, Frank La Rosa wrote: >Hi All, > > You should all be aware that in order to use this new database, the >NYBGS requires you to have a paid membership with them...$50 a year. I >tried to simply register on their site and I was disapproved because of this >reason. > Well the NYG&BS is paying money to get access to this site for its memebers.. You also can not go to the NYG&BS and use the machines to view the 1875 NYS Census etc. It is not a publis library. So join as many of us have; even without this membership was easily worth the cost. regards m ------------------------------------------------------------------ Jazz is freedom. - T. Monk http://www.panix.com/~cassidy