Gee, that was a nice and polite statement..........it sure makes one feel good about asking a question. Such attitude sure chased me away! In a message dated 05/18/2002 5:55:20 PM Eastern Daylight Time, advantagegroup@msn.com writes: << If you don't feel you need to subscribe to both lists, then get off this one. From: SusanS373@aol.com Reply-To: NYDUTCH-L@rootsweb.com To: NYDUTCH-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [NYDUTCH] This List Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 14:10:16 EDT Can someone please tell me the difference between the discussed topics of this list and those of the Dutch-Colonies list. I am currently a subscriber to the Dutch-Colonies list and have been since 1996. Some very in depth data has been posted to this list and very informative discussions have taken place over these past years involving early Dutch settlers to NY (Long Island, New Amsterdam, Ulster Co etc...all now archived under Dutch-Colonies.) I don't think we need to duplicate these lists nor do I need to subscribe to two on the same subject. The Dutch Colonies list has (at last count) over 1000 subscribers many of whom are true scholars of these early families. Most of us have tied up many of our loose ends with the help of these people! Just curious! : -) Susan >>