My friends - On checking my in box this morning, I found 597 e-mails awaiting me, of which 431 were additions to the new JP Surnames website. So you were busy overnight<g>. A few additional thoughts and guidelines: 1) PLEASE DO NOT USE THE *DELETE* BUTTON ON THE RECORD ADDITION PAGE. If you click on it, it will delete the ENTIRE RECORD, including ALL e-mail addresses, not just yours. If you make a mistake in typing your e-mail address into the box, simply move your cursor to the left of the first letter of the address, and use the Delete key ON YOUR KEYBOARD to remove the incorrect address, then re-enter it. 2) Please do not duplicate surnames - if a surname is already in the database, please do not enter a "new" record for the same surname. 3) Surnames which were inadvertently omitted by me in the original database can easily be added. You can do it yourself by adding a "New Record", or send them to me and I will add them. 4) This site is FREE - it does not cost anyone anything. 5) I have had a few folks who have expressed concern about the e-mail addresses that are being posted,and the potential for their being used for commercial purposes, such as the sending of junk e-mail. This is a common problem with *any* web site which contains e-mail addresses. Even if I had posted a private site, web crawlers would have discovered it at some point and those addresses could be harvested and used to send junk e-mail. There is no easy solution to this, and about the only suggestion I can make in this area is that if your concern about that potential is greater than the need to post your surnames, don't use the site. None of us wants to get any more junk mail than we already receive, but anytime e-mail addresses appear on a site, the potential does exist for them to be harvested. 6) Finally, I have received perhaps a dozen private messages from folks criticizing the setup of the website, the use of a "commercial" site, the slow loading time(which I mentioned in my announcement last night), and a few other complaints, including one which expressed dislike of the colors displayed on the site. About the only response that I will give to these concerns is this: I have spent many - very many - hours on this project. The Quickbase site allowed me to get this project up and running quickly so that all of us could have a place to try to make contacts. No site, or arrangement of the table therein, or other aspects of it, will be satisfactory to all of us. If the site is not satisfactory to some, I suggest that they not use it. I am always open to constructive suggestions about anything that I do, but areas over which I have no control are outside my ability to affect. Thanks for your interest and involvement in this project. -B ================================================================