Begining March 2nd, 2020 the Mailing Lists functionality on RootsWeb will be discontinued. Users will no longer be able to send outgoing emails or accept incoming emails.  Additionally, administration tools will no longer be available to list administrators and mailing lists will be put into an archival state.  Administrators may save the emails in their list prior to March 2nd. After that, mailing list archives will remain available and searchable on RootsWeb In light of above annoucement few days ago. The original NY-Western list was declared inactive because the previous listowner disappeared  and no replacement was found by Ancestry staff. https://groups.io/g/NY-Western-Region scroll down to blue button "Join this Group" or [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Covers same counties as in original list with list with 2 counties added to what is known as Genesee Country Allegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie, Genesee, Monroe, Niagara, Orleans, and Wyoming David Samuelsen