Hi Listers, To respond to those on the Caldwell List that have asked about me re-posting queries to the Caldwell list that have been posted to the Ancestry.com Caldwell Message Board. When the old usgenweb query boards, and the obit boards, hosted by Rootsweb, were linked to the Caldwell List the queries were automatically forwarded (gatewayed) to the Caldwell List, but not the obits. The different boards could be controlled (gatewayed) individually. Rootsweb also hosted the old obituary board and to keep every one on the list from receiving to their mailboxes a lot of obits daily the gateway to the obits were closed. The obits were not forwarded to the Caldwell List, but could be read on the OBIT board on Rootsweb. When Ancestry.com took over the message boards in June, 2001, from ROOTSWEB, they combined all the old boards to one and called it the Caldwell Message Board. This left only one gateway to all messages, obits, queries, etc. This gateway could either be open or closed.... To keep everyone's mailbox from being loaded down daily with obits I was posting, I asked Vicki Stewart, the List Administrator, to close the gateway from the message board... I agreed to keep a check on the queries and post the ones from the Caldwell/Lyon Message Boards to the Caldwell/Lyon Lists along with the ADDRESS of the person that needed to be responded to. It would be informative if anyone responding would include a carbon copy to the Caldwell/Lyon List so everyone else could benefit. Sorry to be so long-winded in my explanation, but the takeover of Rootsweb by Ancestry.com has caused lots of problems and quite a few letters of explanation have had to be made to individuals. Hopefully this explains why I have been re-posting queries to the Caldwell List. Regards, Ken Gilkey \\\|/// \\ ~ ~ // ( @ @ ) ----oOOo-(_)-oOOo----McGillekehr ********************************************************************** *****Your kygenweb homepages are***** CALDWELL http://home.hiwaay.net/~woliver/caldwell.html LYON http://home.hiwaay.net/~woliver/lyon.html TRIGG http://www.kyseeker.com/trigg/index.html **********************************************************************