Greetings and Salutations O' Happy Researchers, I'm Cathy DiPietro - your list manager aka human in charge of the genealogy mailing lists listed above. Welcome to all of you folks who just got a computer (or webtv) for the Holidays. At any time, you can write to me regarding posting or subscription problems at: vdpcom@warwick.net If you have any questions or doubts about items on the list or that you are considering sending to the list, please let me know. Rootsweb automatically unsubscribes email addresses from a list after three attempts to deliver to it. If you suspect this may have happened to you, contact me at vdpcom@warwick.net You can search through past messages of this list and any others hosted by Rootsweb at this address: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl put in the name of the mailing list without the "@Rootsweb.com" On the next screen, enter the search word and select a year to check. If messages were found, on the next screen, click on [full] to read each archived posting. Be sure to check alternate spellings and all years available as this system will not do partial-word searches. Respect each other. You are running different computers at different technology levels in different countries....please only use plain text, no file attachments, please do not re-send the whole digest/message you are replying to, don't use all capitals, don't send private or inflamatory messages to the whole list - etc. Everyone's time is important and we are all here to help one another. If you have any questions on searching/editting/pasting, etc., send them to - vdpcom@warwick.net Thank you for being such a good group, carry onward and happy hunting! Cathy DiPietro vdpcom@warwick.net Sussex County, NJ, USA http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/5699/index.html