In response to Sandy's questions: I wanted to jump in and answer some of your questions. I wasn't sure if you wanted them sent to the list or you personally.... First of all, I am researching my husband's family lines: BOWYER, ROBERTSON, HUGHES, BECKLEY, SCOTT, GEORGE, DILLEY, SWIFT. A lot of them have lived in Frankton and Elwood (and surrounding areas). We've met a lot of very nice people researching these areas and have found some distant relatives through this list. I enjoy the list the way it is. It is one of the more active lists that I belong to. I haven't used the genconnect boards in conjunction with this particular list so I will have to try it. I think it is a good idea to open the list up to queries on there. It might help someone out in a way they might not have been helped otherwise. Saying this, I am wondering if the boards are very heavily posted to? Thanks for listening, Melissa Bowyer

Dear Melissa: Thanks for your reply and for sharing some of your surnames! Although there's NO roll call now, I did intend to mention something about roll call items I might be asking for in the future so people would have a chance to think about it a little. I expect to see the topics I addressed about the Mail List and about the gatewaying of the Boards discussed on the Board. I am sure everyone would like to know what everyone else thinks or might suggest regarding these 2 things. In answer to your question about the Boards, as to the query Board, there are 475 messages posted since 1999 to the Query Board. There have been 24 messages posted this month-and today is 11 April. The Boards are fairly active, and I think they are becoming more useful. I know that I have posted a couple of "compilations" of old messages to the list, because I felt I might be able to get some of the listers to do some look ups for things people had asked about on the query Board quite some time ago, but had never been answered. This is another method of getting messages to the list, but it is pretty time consuming on my part! I wanted to make it clear that if anyone had any comments about the list or concerns about it or the topics I brought up, that they would know they could contact me privately if they felt the need to, but I don't expect it. There will be at least 2 additional posts I will be making in the next few days that will deal with our Madison County, Indiana Web Site thru the INGen Web Project at http://www.rootsweb.com/~inmadiso/index.htm More pages and features are being finished up now for uploading and I am trying to get this done before I send the other posts. Thanks for your interest....and courage! Someone has to go first! Thanks. Sincerely, Sandy Hennis List Administrator, INMADISO-L INMADISO-admin@rootsweb.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/