Hi Susan Rootsweb are working on the normal access to the archives, but if you sign into Rootsweb and select My Account, you get a summary of all the lists you are subscribed to and or admin, from that you can access the archives if required Hopefully normal access to the archives will resume soon On your mention of not receiving copies of your own posts, gmail in its infinite wisdom decided that users do not need a copy "to keep your inbox tidy" (I think we should be the judge of that) there is a simple work through, which does not prove its been posted to the list in question but does at least show its been through the servers, and that is to bcc a copy to yourself I use Thunderbird and have it set to automatically bcc a copy to my own address Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > When I was new to this List I wondered why my own postings to the List did > not show up in my inbox.....until it was explained to me that ones own > postings DO NOT go into one's own inbox. In order to see if my postings had > 'got through' to the List, I needed to check in the List archives. If > Rootsweb/Ancestry has ceased subscribers access to the mailing lists It > seems we will no longer be able to check the status of our postings. This > is actually a minor problem when we are so fortunate to still have > this List which continues to be of so much use and support to all of us who > use it.