Dear List, After all these months, the pair of pages I have been working on that consists of links to free international birth and baptismal information and records sites is finally up and running at: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~thecohens/birthindexes.html This resource will hopefully help those of you who have tried searching for free birth information, and been frustrated because every site requires payment before you can get any information. I hope I have included the basic Polish sites Tina and others usually recommend, let me know if I left any free ones off the list. I basically have better coverage of the United States and England so far, and would welcome suggestions of more sites for anywhere in the world that yield significant free birth information, with that as a primary focus, and where searching for births does not bring up all other kinds of records that need to be waded through to find birth records. Thanks to all who have already made suggestions. If I omitted a site you suggested, I either accidentally overlooked it, or decided that it was not appropriate to include. So give a yell if you want me to reconsider it.

Would this list cover birth indexes from Galicia in the late 1800's, say 1880-1900? I know the parish to contact via email but they usually respond in Polish and I have no one to translate for me. Thanks, Barb

Hi, Saturday evening, I sent out the October issue of the free e-zine _Gen Dobry!_. You may not have received it -- some subscribers have not been getting their copies lately -- and I wanted to explain why. We recently moved to a new host for the PolishRoots Website, and we started distributing the e-mail version of GD via that host's bulk distribution resources. There were a lot of pluses to this new arrangement, but one minus is that every time you move, something gets lost -- in this case, the full subscriber list from our old distributor. So, sadly, a lot of people who signed up to receive GD have not been getting it. If you do NOT receive the October issue, and you want it, you can get the PDF here: http://polishroots.org/GenDobry/tabid/60/Default.aspx You can also sign up to receive the monthly e-mail version there. If you subscribed before and haven't received the last couple of issues, please bite the bullet and sign up again. A little above where the Archive list starts, there's an envelope symbol and the link "Sign up for our Email newsletter." You may need to create "an account," but that's no big deal, and obligates you to nothing. Anyone who wants the issue in pure-text version can also get it by writing to me at wfh@langline.com. I'll send it along in the next day or so. I personally think the PDF versions are the best, and that's why I recommend downloading the PDF at the above URL. But if you prefer the e-mail text version, it's not a problem to send it to you. I apologize for the confusion. If you've inadvertently been dropped from our subscriber list, please sign up again. We don't want to lose any readers! Fred Hoffman Editor of _Gen Dobry!_