Just for the record, there is nothing rude about having two forums one for oldtime genealogy and one for DNA genealogy. My state has 3 formums for the state and then some. One for each county. Not because each county doesnt want the others to be on their list, but because the each cover different areas and are of interest to people, different reasons. The flow of Maxxwell queries has slowed down because we are people are tired of not finding what they are looking for. The majority of each digest is on DNA. By the time you weed through to get to the other postings, precious time is wasted because what used to be people sharing their family record and pedigree information is now all some scientific discussion. If you find a match you still dont have names and or dates, just generalities. It is know different than knowing you are a decendant of a president with no proof of names and dates inbetween. Having 2 formums would not cause anyone to miss anything. Each forum could refer to the other in the list administrations instructions at the beginning of each digest. And anyone who cares could just join both forums and not miss a thing. Im sure listers will start posting more again, when things go back to old time genealogy. Im on many lists and this is the only one losing valuable postings to DNA postings. And like I said there is nothing rude about posting to a separate forum where those interested would be able to get their daily dose. Also, when we had regular postings and less DNA there was no need for JUNK mail from from people with "selfish retorts" because the DNA non stop stories are what have brought all of this about. We are not being selfish because we want information from a list that we signed on to because it was full of useful family record and pedigree information. That is why we joined! SO soon there will be no more people asking "questions" because they will be losing interest and moving on and missing out on sharing valuable information with those who want the same. Im sure it would make those very happy who need more room for the DNA stories and in time that is all that there will be on this list. If we wanted DNA to be the main topic we could have signed on to the Science list. The "retorts" selfish or not are getting old including mine. Maybe we can get the list back to what it used to be. If not we can always post through Root-D@ rootsweb.com or Roots-L @ rootsweb.com where we can actually ask and get answers to our questions. Vickie Cooking0404@aol.com List Administrator, there is no disrespect meant to you by this, it is just that many of us were happy with the list before DNA, and now we arent getting questions or answers unless we go off the list.