Actually, I think several things are at issue in citing the message you are referencing. One is which e-mail you have, or perhaps what settings you have set up in it. At work, someone routinely replies to my questions a week later with just a "Yes" and without sending my original question back to me. I have to ask her what she is talking about. She said she thought my question WAS coming back to me! I have the same e-mail she does, and I believe all I need to do is hit "reply" and it automatically quotes the e-mail I am replying to. If I had to set that up initially, I don't remember it. It might be under something called Settings or Options or Preferences. Sort of related to that is which e-mail client you might be using. They usually give you an option to reply to the quoted text ABOVE the original text, or BELOW it, etc. Another issue might be whether you subscribe to this list in digest mode or regular mode. I get it in digest mode, where everyone's e-mail is an attachment to one large parent message. For some reason my e-mail won't let me reply to the individual messages, and if I reply to the parent message, it quotes a blank message. So I had to cut & paste your message into this e-mail to reply. I'd imagine it's easier to reply automatically quoting the message you are replying to, if you subscribe in regular list mode (I think that's HUNGARY-L instead of HUNGARY-D). - Elaine On Wed, 6 Jul 2005 19:00:08 -0600, "HUNGARY-D-request@rootsweb.com" said: > Date Wed, 6 Jul 2005 12:16 PM ( 9 hours 7 mins ago ) From "Julianne Jacob Brazina" <juliejb@ptd.net> [Add] To HUNGARY-L@rootsweb.com Subject How to cite the message you are referencing Dear Listers, Often I notice that an answer to someone's inquiry is prefaced with the opening: In a message dated thus and so, The Writer, said or asked " with the text of the first message given". But, I don't know how you do it! Help will be appreciated. Thanks, Julie