E-mail to HARRISON-L is archived, and it is fairly easy to search the archives. Here is an example of how to find the repository in the archives. But the same technique can be used to find vast amounts of other information. 1. Go to www.rootsweb.com with your Web browser. 2. Scroll down about three screens to where it says "Interactive Search of Mailing Lists". It's under Search Engines on the left half of the screen. Click on the link. 3. It will ask you which mailing list. Type in HARRISON-L and click the Submit Search button. In some ways, I think this button is misnamed, because it is not really searching for anything yet. The designers probably called it "Submit Search" because in their minds you are searching for a mailing list. For example, if you misspelled it as HARISON-L, it would not find anything. 4. You are now at the search screen. You can't search the whole archives. You can only search one year at a time, and you have to pick a year. You will find that 1996 is pre-selected, but you can easily click on another year. For the purposes of finding the repository, I selected 2000. 5. Put in your search. For the purposes of finding the repository, I just put in the word "repository". For other, more complicated, searches, you can put in more words. I have yet to find the exact rules this particular search engine uses -- whether it uses "and" and "or" logic, for example, or whether it wants strings in quotes. I do know that there is no point in putting in the word "Harrison", because if you do you will simply get back every single email that was ever sent to harrison-l. So after clicking "2000" and typing in "repository", click the Search button. In this case, you will two hits. Click "Full" to see either one of them, and either one of them will tell you where the repository is. 6. I have searched on such things as "Reuben" and "Susan" and "Tennessee" and "TN" etc. -- anything that people might have put into an email to harrison-l in the past. One good thing to search for is surnames other than Harrison that might have married into the Harrison family. Jerry Bryan ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com