I have just received "official" notification that the gateway for the Effingham County Message Board on Rootsweb/Ancestry has been turned on. What that means is that from now on, every posting to the message board will be "forwarded (gatewayed) to our Effingham County Mailing list. To repeat myself...if you see the words "This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list" and if you choose to reply to the poster, you MUST use the URL link in that message, or the reply will go only to our mailing list and not to the message board. That reply to the message board will in turn be forwarded to our mailing list so that we can all see the response(s). This should broaden the scope of our mailing list. Just remember that if you just hit "reply", the poster will not get your reply. Here we go!!!!!!! Let's have a good time with this and broaden our genealogy reach. Linda Effingham County Mailing List Administrator Effingham County Message Board Administrator