Dear Frank (and all the other subscribers): I did not mean to offend anyone with the roll call. As list owner, I have done this in the past every year or so to let new subscribers find people with the same interests, and also it "registers" everyone's surname in the archives of the list. If you do not want to do this you do not have to. I live in Bergen County, NJ and lost a friend and a few acquaintances in the World Trade Center tragedy. On Sept 11th, my husband had a business meeting just four blocks north of the WTC and I spent a few hours in agony because I didn't hear from him. On Saturday I attended the memorial service for the father of my daughter's classmate. Every day on my way to and from work I stare at the hole in the NYC skyline. Please, I don't eant to start a long thread discussing the attack and all the ramifications - there are other lists that were set up just for that, including one at rootsweb - so guys, if you're not ready to get back to genealogy, no one is going to push you. Respectfully, Judy ===== Judy Jamieson Pisano [email protected] "The Bird Families of New Jersey" <http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~birdnj> __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Listen to your Yahoo! Mail messages from any phone. http://phone.yahoo.com