Message Board posts are sent to the list.................... If you wish to respond to a message board post you can no longer click on reply and get to the person who posted the message. Nor can you find out who sent the post to the message board if you use it. Ancestry has decided this is necessary to protect your privacy. When I use the board from now on I intend to put my email contact address inside the message saying " contact me at this address" in that way, if someone sees my post and they come from the same family line that I do, they will have someway to contact me. I'll do like this.... Mary Harkey Russell Maryiola@alltel.net