Now that I see the negatives of gatewayed message being posted I will jump in. I agree with the negative comments of the previous posters and prefer to go to the Ancestry Boards to review the Boards/Rootsweb there if I so choose. I very rarely, if at all, respond to gatewayed messages - they are just a bother and I simply delete them. At Ancestry/Rootsweb one can sign up for Alerts/Notifications from any board in a composite form if they so choose and thus if they visit the message link provided in the Alert/Notification will not miss anything and have the entire message thread to review if they so choose. Gatewayed Messages are just a great bother & unecessary duplication to someone who subscribes to numerous lists. My downright honest opinion is the gatewayed messages are just another way of luring newbies to subscribe to Ancestry . I am a subscriber. Well now I finally got that off my chest. Ginny Buechele http://www.geocities.com/ginnyflies/ Ginny's History, Genealogy, Historical Preservation, & Poughkeepsie [Uppuqui-ipis-ing] Hometown Page Dutchess & Putnam Counties, NY