So Alice and Jim are/were on the same mailing I am still on, plowing through more than 1600 messages. They already saw my responses and assistance to others trying to stay on top. Right now the new system is off line so programmers are loading up the glitch fixes - AND moving boards around to proper places. They took my Germany, Luxembourg and Saarland boards out to move to their new place. I am waiting for the system to get back online so I can re-bookmark the sites. And since I have been admin of Aldrich boards since the beginning, I am admin of the new Aldrich board. In reality - it is the surname boards taking in the most, because Ancestry.com -AND- Myfamily.com message boards are heavy of surname groups and NO admins while the GenConnect boards have adminstrators. I wounded up with more than 500 messages absorbed into the new RW message board. I will be checking through those messages and find the inappropriate ones to delete. The delightful feature of the new message board is one called "Admin Info" (request made to change it to "Welcome Information") Each board has one. Basic information is name of administrator and his/her email listed. Additional information is added by the board admin. Can even add photographs. Another feature of the new system, you can attach gedcoms, photo or text files. Even put in your personal website address in the message without much ado. Another feature, the email addresses are eaily updated globally, meaning when you log in to post - you are in effect update all your posts with your current address each time. We won't have to deal with bounced, invalid or warped addresses anymore. Gateway glitch is being fixed. A good number of mailing lists were gatewayed to old GC system and for some reason were not working in new system. W. David Samuelsen