There is no doubt that Obit information is important genealogical research and belongs on our various lists. The people who take the time to type the obits and share them with us are wonderful people who hope to help others. Having said the above, I think that there can be an obit abuse factor which I don't believe has happened on the Armstrong and Westmoreland lists yet; but, I have experience the problem on another list which was pumping out 30 individual obits per day; i.e. 30 separate Emails a day and on one occasion I received 50. Soon, very few other types of posting occurred which to me spoiled the list so I unsubscribed as did many others.. I think that it would be very helpful to us, if when the full obits are presented in a group, that maybe the subjects surnames could be put in the subject line so that we would all know if there was a surname that we wanted to find further down in the text. If there was no one we wanted to check out, we can simply delete that set of obits and go on to the next posting of obits. I have seen this done on another list which worked very successfully. Another solution would be, if the obits are being gotten from a newspaper Web Page, to simply give a listing such as: Doe, John such and such a date Doe, Jane, such and such date. Sprat, Jack, such and such date Then the URL of the newspaper could be given so that if someone wanted to learn more about John or Jane Doe, they could simply go to the site for the rest of the obit. This would save time for the kind people who deserve a lot of credit for providing us with obit info and not take up a lot of time for the people not interested in those particular names for that particular day. Rootsweb also provides two Obit lists as well. Just a thought folks. Certainly we owe a big thank you to those people who have been providing the obits; and, at the same time, we should respect the opinions of those people who feel that there have been too many each week. I think that the solution lies in the method of presenting the obits; and, certainly, I don't think anyone is suggesting that they be eliminated. Marilyn: Lake Co., ILLINOIS; [email protected]