To: All of us who who are looking for other towns and / or who are on surname based mailing lists: I know how we can all help each other to increase the variety out there without increasing the work load on those already transcribing who have been so helpful to so many of us and to whom I cannot repay the joy of finding my own surnames in the haystack of the other fascinating stories. Perhaps we could all put your pleas for additional transcribers to our surname lists also, these folks are surely researching through newspapers also during their family research and may not know about the old news lists and how helpful sharing what they have already collected might be. Even if they transcribed old clippings from their family scrapbooks mention names of those attending weddings or funerals and give hints helpful to others' searches. One person had transcribed a whole scrapbook's clippings on a family site on roots web I found searching with google, and it was from there I found some of my greatest information on one of my brick walls. So, you can help in the transcribing process even if you are not able to get to the library or get an interlibrary loan. Just transcribe clipings you already have that mention others to the appropriate oldnews abstract sites, and help spread the word to other surname listers to do the same. Then these items would be in the archives and thus a help not only to us all but to future listers?