Many new GenConnect Surname boards are going up. I know because I have added 7 surnames and 49 boards in the last couple of days. First, recd this msg from GenConnect a bit ago: Pam Carey <durp@one.net> Subject: *** Important GenConnect Announcement *** GenConnect will be down for a bit on Saturday night and Sunday morning, January 16 and 17, 1999, while it is being moved to a new box (bigger and faster). You will not have to change any links, there's nothing that you need do. This is simply to let you know that GenConnect will be down for a period. No "official" announcement will be made when it is back up. That will be obvious when the pages are once again available through a web browser. Yours, The GenConnect Team ------------------------------------------------ Here are a few instructions for posting to the GenConnect Surname Boards; the index to getting to the surname boards is at: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/indx/FamAssoc.html The official GenConnect Hints and Tips page: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/HINTS/index.html Posting to the GenConnect Boards: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/HINTS/posting.html And, adding... Repeating.....Do not post a query to any board except the query board. A query posted to other than a query board will be deleted. Please refer to copyright information at: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/HINTS/copyright.html Posting to an Obituary Board If the poster of an obituary disappears and I would like to get a copy of/ see the obituary then I need the name of the newpaper, the city and state of the newspaper and the date of the obituary. So remember to include this information with your obituaries. Posting to a Will or Deeds Board: If you post to a Will or Deeds Board, please include the county and state of the legal, at least the year of the legal, but important if known so I can check it at the courthouse would be the ledger number/letter and the page/index page where the legal is recorded. Pensions Board Again, dates and places as to where the the pension papers can be located. Query Board Put the MAIN surname(s) in the surname list. Don't put all surnames you are researching in the list of surnames. It is very discouraging when I use a search engine and the search find gives me nothing for the surname I am looking for. **Repeating.....Do not post a query to any board except the query board. A query posted to other than a query board will be deleted. I hope this helps some. I probably didn't cover enough here so if you have a question about posting to the GenConnect Boards, contact me. If unsure where to post, send me a sample of what you want to post and I could better tell you if and where it should go on the GenConnect boards or maybe better submitted to the USGenWeb archives under a county. Good luck and keep those posts going on the boards. Can't wait til a post appears on my long lost ancestors. Gloria ------------------ Gloria Frazier DE>IL-Coverdill IN>IL-Hays KY>IL-Nash/Oller/Shipp KY>MO-Frazier/Morrison/Ragland/Upton/Hamilton KY>Hord TN>IL-Adcock/Carter/Sutton/Richards/Warren/Wingo TN-Baseye Thrasher