During the month of February, a significant number of new subscribers asked how to get started with their genealogy. Joanne Kennedy responded with a post full of help based on her 20 years of experience, (and which I immediately saved for my own files, <always learning>). With graphical or text web browsing you will find a tremendous amount of help pointers and information at the web site of the FEEFHS, http://www.feefhs.org/ - once there, look through the Ethnic, Religious and National Index. At the page for soc.genealogy.slavic you will find the FAQ for slavic genealogy by Stephen Kymlicka (founder of soc.genealogy.slavic and co-owner of Gen-Slavic). In the same index Slovak Researchers will want to study the document "Slovak & Rusyn Roots" -----by John A. Hudick. Now for some reminders, Gen-Slavic is set not to receive MIME messages. I think most subscribers realize this now, as there were not as many errors over the past month. A few subscribers were trying to signoff during February, and were looking for the right commands. All the commands can be retrieved in a document by sending an "INFO REFCARD" command to LISTSERV@MAIL.EWORLD.COM. Most subscribers take the time to unsubscribe or set their options temporarily to NOMail when on vacation or absent from their modems for some reason - prevents a full mail box and cuts down on my error messages too. If a subscriber is using a trial offer of a month free service from an ISP, <you know those free AOL diskettes you get in the mail?> - the SIGNOFF GEN-SLAVIC command is in order if you decide not to stay with that particular ISP. Thanks all, Margaret Sheremata sherema@vax2.concordia.ca GEN-SLAVIC Listowner