My friends - The lists which I host have been spared from a nuisance problem which has been inundating other RootsWeb lists, and it now appears it is starting to reach the JP region. This message consists of one sentence with a URL(link) after it. Please DO NOT click on the link. If you do so, this virus will enter the recipient(your) computer's e-mail program and resend the same message to every address in the address book of that e-mail program. It gets past RootsWeb's spam filter because the address passes through the mail servers as legitimate, and RootsWeb's spam filters are not set to catch spam of this nature, as the contents are so short and often not obscene or offensive. So far, we have had three occurrences of this message on two of my 12 lists. The e-mails of those folks whose computers sent the message(without their knowledge, of course)will be placed on moderation while I contact the subscriber to let the person know that he/she is infected. Normally, changing passwords will solve the problem, but the virus still needs to be eradicated from the computer's system. I understand the fix is relatively simple. For those of you on the private "Beasley List", the addresses are *not* contained in my e-mail program, and are encrypted, so there is no danger of this nuisance getting into any of those 400 addresses. On another subject, those on the private Beasley List have received parts 8 and 9 of the index segments of the Beasley Marble & Granite Monument Co. of Wayne Co.,TN and later, of Paducah, KY. We are now approaching 3000 individual packets indexed, which puts us more than halfway through the project. We found what is now the earliest inscription birth year to date(which had been 1784). An order was placed about 1898 for a monument indicating a birth year of 1767, placed by a descendant of this early settler from South Carolina(which fact[that he came from SC] was inscribed on the stone). This man died in 1856 - when Joseph Willis Beasley, the founder of the Beasley firm - was three years old. We also found our first order from Union Co.,KY in the group we are currently indexing. I will continue to keep the lists posted. -B ========================================================================================================