Dear Readers, wow! how wonderful to know how much so many of you truly care about this newspaper project! it is re-assuring to hear from so many readers with their ideas and offers to help. Betty Thomas (Gen/Web Co. Co-ord.)has written this to me--so for now we don't need to "worry" over the articles being lost or turned to dust-- I am referring here to the articles that I have submitted--I can't speak for any others--everything that I submitted to the NY Old News list, I also submitted to the NY mailing lists of Genesee County --therefore, that is why these have been saved at this rootsweb site. As some of you readers already know--and advised me--rootsweb is owned by ancestry...and they are in it for the $$. However at this point, I am not going to be concerned over that issue. What I want is for the public to make use of these documents-because I firmly believe that there is a wealth of history in them-and can be a very valuable research tool. Thank you again for your responses- now, here is Betty's email to me, which may clear up things for you a bit better- then, please see my "p.s." below her message_ Linda, All the submissions to the NY Old news list are also archived at rootsweb...in the maillist archiver http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=NY-OLD-NEWS This is search site, another site lets you just browse the archives. If people from other places and states also posted theirs to local lists or another state old news list...then all those will be in the archives at rootsweb too. So they won't be lost, just not all together on one web site. p.s.---I will continue to submit old news articles, as this issue seems to be resolved, for the present at least-and will also be working on putting more articles on the Bethany(Gen. Co., NY) webpage which I am editor for, and also at the Buffalo website-which contains a wealth of info not only about Buffalo but about western NY--please check it out if you haven't already! It is a superb site! http://www.buffalonian.com thanks again---see you in the Newsies! : ) Linda Schmidt Web-Page Editor for Bethany BETHANY: Its Past and Present ~ Bethany Town Page http://www.arkwebshost.com/family/bluebird/TownOfBethany.shtml