I hope I can explain this correctly! Rootsweb has made some changes to the various boards on line which includes the Barren County board. This is not the lists but the boards. If you are searching on a board such as Barren Co and bring up a message to read (such as when I post obituaries, queries posted, etc. etc.) you will notice a new feature. Looking at the message, you will see that all the surnames in the message are hyper-linked - underlined in other words. If you put your cursor over that name, a little pop-up box will show guiding the reader to other resources for that name on rootsweb, ancestry, etc. If you click on that box, you will be taken to the other sites within rootsweb and ancestry.com such as census records, surname boards, etal. The only problem is that many times words will be underlined that are not surnames! An example would be words like tree, family, sometimes first names that can also be surnames, or words out of a title (such as Glasgow Daily Times - all three words can be linked). Until the robot computer gets a little more sophisticated, this can cause a pop-up box for the word Daily (which can be a surname), Glasgow, etc. If this is a distraction to you or you don't want to see all the links and those little boxes, you can eliminate them on the message. Put your cursor over one of the hyper-linked words and let the little box pop up. At the bottom of that little orangish box is an option "turn off links". Click on that, the page will immediately re-load and the links will be gone. This change has no effect on your posting of messages, only in reading them. If you leave the site and come back later ... you'll have to turn off the links again. It is a great feature .... but if you find this distracting ... and many do ... just turn off the links. Have I confused you? You might go to a post on one of the boards (they're all set up this way now) and check it out. Sandi SCKY Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=south-central-kentucky Barren Co Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybarren Sandi's Puzzlers: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gensoup/gorin/puz.html