To the person who wants to 'unsubscribe': Please do not cut off your nose to spite your face. Genealogy research always has a price. Whether it is your time, a collateral cousins time or the money you pay for a research service. Investing time for volunteering, researching old records, copying old records, deciphering old records are often extremely painstaking. You might not get any information if it were not for these societies! When some asks a rootsweb list: 'hey, could you look up John Smith in the 1850 Rome, Oneida County, Census', please be aware that someone is doing the leg work for you. They may be getting the information from a service for which they pay. Paying a few dollars for a Genealogical Society that actually preserves, transcribes, maintains and promotes historical and genealogical information is a few dollars well spent. There would be very little information available to anyone researching if it were not for these Historical and Genealogical Societies. The reason that ROOTSWEB-Lists are FREE is because there is a huge database of paying customers who fund the Mother Board, which is Ancestry.com. Signed, Susan Paying Member of Ancestry.com, NEHGS and soon 'Tree Talks' Has shared, does share, and will continue to share information