Thanks Bob, It is also recommended that surnames be ALL CAPS, so they stand out in a message. In fact the message subject line is recommended by the genealogy community to be formatted as "Firstname LASTNAME; Place; date." On some mail lists, unless you format queries that way, many readers will immediately delete it. (Messages titled such as "Help", "Genealogy", and especially "Re: PFALZ Digest, Vol 1, Issue 8" never make it past the Delete Key.) At 12:00 AM 10/3/2006, you wrote: >From: bob gillis <robertgillis@verizon.net> >Subject: [Pfalz] Subjects and message composition was [Re: PFALZ > Digest, Vol 1, Issue 8] >To: fenenga@connpoint.net, pfalz@rootsweb.com > >Some suggestions: > >1. Do not use the Digest reference as a subject line: use the >original which was: > Re: [Pfalz] Dunheiffer, Ultsch, Weyrauch, Wagner > >2. Do not put several different surnames in the same query. After one >ot two back and forths, trying to keep the different names and people >straight in a long message gets quite difficult. Put one famaily/surname >in each message. > >bob gillis