Frank Brooks has taken over the Jackson County site from Norm and has his site at; http://www.rootsweb.com/~injackso/ Be sure to update your link to Jackson and look for a new URL for Jennings soon. Here is a message from Dr. Brian Leverich,the owner of rootsweb. *********************************************************** Sorry about the tardiest report to date -- we've been so busy that we just didn't have the time to compile our statistics for October and November. The executive summary is that we had about a 55% growth over in just the three months from September to December: o 20,835,802 Web files (14,687,507 in Sept) from 2,240 Websites (1,891 in Sept). - 5,903,137 were HTML pages (not images or cgi-bin) (4,462,656 in Sept). - 2,911,509 were cgi-bin database searches and such. (1,777,881 in Sept). - 11,849,905 were GIFs (10,902,627) or JPEGs (947,279) (8,317,545 in Sept were GIFs (7,560,589) or JPEGs (756,956). o 472,838 FTP file downloads from the USGenWeb Archives and the ROOTS-L Library (427,565 in Sept). o We've lost count of how much mail we're shipping to the 2,300+ (1,900 in Sept) mailing lists we host, but last month it was in the neighborhood of 90,000,000 million pieces. o 60,000 alt.g and s.g.* Usenet News articles to hosts on three continents (same as Sept). o Approximately 321,408,000,000 bytes in total (207,360,000,000 in Sept). Besides adding hundreds of new Websites and mailing lists, in the last three months RootsWeb has added search engines for the USGenWeb Archives and all 4 *gigabytes* of messages in the archives of our surname and regional mailing lists. Also in the last three months, RootsWeb has added several new servers and a third and fourth T1 connection to the Internet. (A T1 is about 50 times faster than a standard modem.) These additions have significantly increased our costs of operation, but they were essential if we were to continue to properly support the Internet genealogical community. I'd like to take this opportunity to thank RootsWeb's Members, Sponsors, and Donors. *** RootsWeb could not exist without you *** Because you've chosen to support RootsWeb, we already have more than 7 gigabytes (that's the eqivalent of 3.5 *million* pages) of genealogical data online. There is a tremendous amount of further work to be done but, if community support of RootsWeb continues to grow, ultimately we will be able to provide resources to online genealogists that will rival what they could find in the very best research libraries. We've done a lot already, but think of what it will be like when any genealogist can access a first-rate library from the comfort of their own home. Thanks again for your support! -B -- Dr. Brian Leverich Co-moderator, soc.genealogy.methods/GENMTD-L RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative http://www.rootsweb.com/ P.O. Box 6798, Frazier Park, CA 93222-6798 leverich@rootsweb.com