Fellow Listers -- Just to bring you up to date on some changes on our list website, all in the Beyond the Basics section. If you visit there at -- (http://www.island.net/~andreav/index.html -- you will find a new link which is called Search Engines. I hope you will have a browse through it and perhaps try some of the search engines to see if they turn up anything of interest to you. I recommend the specifically genealogically-oriented search engines such as www.genealogyportal.com or the Rootsweb sites as a start. But even the general search engines might turn up something unexpected. If you've been to Beyond the Basics section at other times, you will notice that a lot of the links that were there before are now missing. These were links that "went nowhere", ie. I hadn't completed all the work involved and transferred them to the website yet. So I removed them. I thought it was better to have *fewer* links displayed, all of which worked, rather than *more* links, many of which didn't work <g>! In retrospect, I was being too ambitious in putting them all on the site in the first place, and, at the same time, not being realistic as to how much time all this would take. So, as I said, I removed those non-working links, leaving only those which worked. The deleted links will eventually all be put back, but not until they are functioning links, ie. leading to information rather than "this URL not found" as before. As always, I welcome input/suggestions from subscribers about the website (what you like & find useful, what you don't, etc). I also welcome any information which you think should be included on the website. It's a big job so anything which will help me get it done is really appreciated. Andrea