Could we collect everyone's roll call of names along with their email address and just combine them? This would not even have to be spreadsheet; maybe just a word processing doc with the names listed [alphabetically & horizontally, to save space]. Then a pdf copy could be sent [offlist] to whoever requested it. This would allow us to scroll through the different members of LAORLEAN, looking at the names they are researching without having to sift through roll call messages mixed in with other list messages. For example, frequently people will reply to an entire digest without deleting all the irrelevant other messages. This means that readers have to sift through long, repeated messages over and over again. Speaking for just myself, I just don't have that much time. So getting all the roll call names in one place without other list messages interspersed would be a real help. To make this more manageable, we might ask that the names being search only come from Louisiana. The problem is that as new list members join LAORLEAN they won't know that such a list exists. I don't know how to solve this. Someone might have an idea... But, I'll give an example: see below: ---------------- Renee Hotard, bennettrh@earthlink net Direct Lines: Aufrere, Benich, Bopf, Borne, Bossie [Bossier], Bourgeois, Boutte, Calendre, Carmouche, Chenet, Chennion, Chevalier, Couturier, Cunningham, DeGruy, Diederlen, Doss, Dubuisson, Dupont dit le Kintrek, Durand [or Lapeyre], Engel [Inglar], Evans, Folse, Gendner, Guillemet dit La Lande, Herzog, Hotard, Hubert dit la Croix, Huval, Perret, Pujol, Rome [Rommel], Ruth, St. Amand, Tregre, Trosclair, Verges, Witzman, Zeringue Allied Families: Henning, Lapeyronnie, Middleton ---------------- Bridgett , mrszipp@cox.net Names: Baldwin, berril, Bourgeois, Davis, Estave, Estavez, Golden, Halligan, Landry, Musselman, Reich, Riehm, Tierney, Simoneaux, Ulmer ----------------- Audrey H, rhopper454@aol.com Names: Brannon, Condon, Eastin, Gondron/Gondran, Harang, Himmelreich, Lenz, McKenzie, Servat, Weinstein ------------------ Craig Borne, cjborne@comcast.net Names: Borne/LeBorne, Bettemont, Haydel, Perret, Daspit, Latour, D'arensbourg, (Emma Florinda) Lucas, Davis, McStea, Schuyler Thibodaux, Belanger, Himel, Porche, Bergeron, Duhe, Bourgeois, Capponi, Bulger, (Ann) Riley, Merrill, (Sophie) Tennermann/Teneman, Gilhust, Dossat, Lamothe ---------------------------------------