I have received empty emails from the list on occasion. Sometimes they are quickly followed by a second email from the same person. My assumption has been that, before writing the message, the sender hit Send by mistake. This time the empty message is mine. Its title was "The Pastures of Albany / was Episcopalian Churches" (I was changing the subject to focus on the Pastures). I just checked my email program's Sent folder. The email on my computer has a complete message in it. Somewhere along the way, the body of the email got lost. Since I only receive empty messages from mailing lists, my guess is that it is a glitch at Ancestry. This is not a complaint; just an observation. I very much appreciate what Ancestry does for us by providing free mailing lists. The problem may only be on the Albany mailing list, because I remember twice before when John Travis reacted the same as he did to my empty message. I seldom look at my emails when they are returned to me from a mailing list. I guess we should all be checking what we send to a mailing list. In my case, there were several people writing on the same subject. It did appear that one or two were ignoring what I wrote, but I just assumed they had different sources from mine. On another mailing list, people received my email long before I did. It took 13 hours for me to get my own message back. Since other people received it from Ancestry long before I did, it hardly seems that the delay had anything to do with Ancestry. Cliff Lamere