VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION: PLEASE READ THIS ENTIRE MESSAGE AND KEEP IT FOR FUTURE REFERENCE. If you are subscribed to multiple census lookup lists you will receive this email more than once. My apologies in advance.          PLEASE FOLLOW THE LIST GUIDELINES BELOW. Disregard of these guidelines may result in your lookup being ignored. The ONLY posts allowed for these lists are census lookup requests or replies to those requests. NO other e-mails are allowed. The lists are to stay on topic at all times. Ignoring this rule may result in unsubscription and loss of posting privileges. NOTE RE: XX-CENSUS-LOOKUP, Please replace the "XX" WITH THE STATE ABBREVIATION FOR THE STATE LIST(S) THAT YOU BELONG TO. Guidelines for posting to the CENSUS-LOOKUP lists SUBJECT LINES should be in the following format: COUNTY,YEAR,SURNAME Please include as much of the following information as you know about the person(s) you are researching: FIRST NAME/MIDDLE NAME/AGE/BIRTHPLACE/SPOUSE OR CHILDREN.  Please include street address or township, if known. NO FLAMING or you will be unsubbed without notice. By this I mean not only being rude or mean to each other but there will be NO and I do mean NO debating here about the Census Projects. This list is for everyone who wants to research. NO General requests such as "all Smiths in all counties" Be specific, Name the County, Family you are looking for and also the year. Try to supply as much info as possible. LIMIT your requests to ONE COUNTY/ONE CENSUS YEAR/ONE SURNAME or HOUSEHOLD. DO NOT POST ANOTHER REQUEST UNTIL YOU HAVE RECEIVED A REPLY FROM YOUR FIRST REQUEST or a REASONABLE (7 days) length of time has passed with no reply. Then, repost your original request prefaced by "Second Request" in the subject line. Please DO NOT post a listing of resources that you personally have available for lookups. Please DO NOT request a listing of resources personally to members of the mailing list. PLEASE DO NOT ABUSE THE LIST OR THE PEOPLE WHO MAY HELP YOU THERE. SUBSCRIBE/UNSUBSCRIBE: What ever you did to subscribe to this list, you succeeded. Should you decide to unsubscribe please read the instructions below. I have also included these instruction in the email taglines. You are currently subscribed in "mail mode," which means that you will receive every posting made to XX-CENSUS-LOOKUP as a separate e-mail.   The directions on how to change to digest mode are given below. I highly recommend that you subscribe in DIGEST mode, most of the lists are proving to very high volume. (Instructions below) How to change to digest mode (several postings are combined and sent to you together as a single large message).  There are two steps.   First, send the command "unsubscribe" to XX-CENSUS-LOOKUP-L-request@rootsweb.com to discontinue mail mode.  Second, send the command "subscribe" to XX-CENSUS-LOOKUP-D-request@rootsweb.com to start receiving digests. Unsubscribe: Send a message to                   XX-CENSUS-LOOKUP-L-request@rootsweb.com in the subject line type only the word "unsubscribe" without quotes. Type nothing in the body of the message. To contact the administrator of this mailing list, send a message to censuslookup@aol.com. Good Luck in your research and enjoy the list.