Sometime early yesterday something went afoul at Ancestry and much of the county has not been able to access either Ancestry.Com or the Rootsweb Boards since that time. That is the situation with me as well and since I use a census index from Ancestry.Com as one of several tools in proofreading the 1870 census, I'm out of business for the present. If you are unable to reach either site, you may be able to do so by going to an alternative address with is their IP number. Here's a recent announcement that came through early this morning. "The connection problem for ancestry.com has been fixed. Ancestry expects it will be another day maybe two before the corrected information is globally propagated. You can connect use http://216.10.103.21/ to connect to ancestry.com http://63.92.86.187 to connect to boards.ancestry.com" I don't believe either will allow you to log in, however, but you should be able to browse. Sounds like all links should be back to normal for everyone within a couple of days. Rich