My friends - A little more housekeeping today. The AOL situation(which has been going on for about two weeks)in which RootsWeb messages were not being delivered by AOL is gradually being remedied. RootsWeb had over 100,000 messages in queue, awaiting AOL's acceptance of some new IP addresses. That appears to have now been accomplished and RootsWeb is slowly releasing the huge queue of messages for delivery. This problem did not apply to every server which RootsWeb operates(I believe there at least 5 different machines), but only to those which had their IP addresses changed. That is why AOL subscribers might be receiving RootsWeb list mail for 3 lists to which they subscribe, but perhaps not to four others, because the four were served by the relocated machine which had new IP addresses. Hopefully, that is just about to be finally straightened out. I mention this here only as informational material, and not as an invitation for discussion of the topic. Those subscribers who live in the JP region may be aware that the Lassiter #1 Cemetery was vandalized recently. It is unfortunate that some folks have nothing better to do than engage in this sort of activity, rather than use the energy in more positive ways. Our friend Jody Lassiter has supplied the following link for further information on this incident: http://www.wpsdtv.com/articles/stories/public/200602/01/0hhL_local_news.html In other news of general interest, there are a couple of states in the east which are attempting to pass legislation to severely restrict access to public records. New Jersey is one of the states involved. The state genealogical society there is rallying to oppose the legislation, and it is expected that they will have some success in their endeavor. This has been a continuing problem in various parts of the country since 9/11, even though it is a well known fact that identity theft, which seems to be the primary concern, is almost never accomplished through genealogical records, but through other areas. It is also a fact that legislators, unless they are historians or genealogists themselves, seem to have no conception of the havoc such proposals could create. Most states have had laws in place for many years that restrict to some degree the ability to access certain types of records(except by family or their duly appointed representative), but such restrictions have been for reasonable periods of time(such as 30-50 years). The new legislation, in some places, has tried to increase these time frames to as much as 125 years Fortunately, none of those radical proposals have been adopted. Kentucky has so far been spared these more extreme proposals and we can hope that such will continue to be the case. I hope to begin posting the short histories of the JP Masonic lodges shortly. -B =========================================================================