If you want one man's opinion, I believe the rootsweb RSL is the best way to make contact with others researching your names. If you have a web page and thousands do, you must constantly advertise it on all the lists and put it on the search engines, and so forth. You spend valuable time promoting your web page when you could be doing research! Bertrand Macpherson PS: This doesn't mean I wouldn't want my own web page....someday!