Just yesterday, Tues., I got a 3rd. reply from my BROWN QUERY via rootsweb.com. Surprisingly, it was a man in or near New Haven, CT who is related to me by several Lines who had e-mailed me about a year or so ago. But, he tells me that he gets so much e-mail that he doesn't look at it carefully & oftentime deletes it w/o reall looking carefully at it. I had tried to e-mail him many, many times, but finally gave up and forgot about him. But, the BROWN thing brought him out of the woodwork, so now I can exchange TUTTLE info that I had wanted to discuss way back, plus BROWN & other surnames we share from the Colonial Times. Patty, you should be able to subscribe to BROWN surname rootsweb site by: BROWN-L-request@rootsweb.com or if you prefer the D or Digest version: BROWN-D-request@rootsweb.com Then type in the Message, or Text window only the word subscribe Nothing else, and be sure your signature is shut off when you do so. Since the process is automated, and you are NOT writing to a human being but to the automated subscriber, you must do exactly so, or it will not subscribe. My practice is to type subscribe in both the Subject window, and the Message, or Text window, and it works every time if the surname is available. When I subscribed to BROWN, I used the same To: window or field to try to subscribe to VINCENT with the one message subscribe The BROWN worked, but the VINCENT returned unsubscribable. Also, recently, when I unsubscribed to several surnames, I wrote each individual surname for each of the surnames I wanted to unsubscribe to and I was able to unsubscribe several surname sites with the one msg. to the automators to unsubscribe and it did so. I was getting too much info at the time. I will re-subscribe to the several surname sites in the same way, when I decide that I can handle them, reasonably. The "request" part of the subscription automator is simply to tell the automator what you want to do - either subscribe or unsubscribe. After that the request part will not be used for submitting info to the rootsweb site. Oftentime, I have blindly typed a surname in caps, such as TYLER-D-request@rootseb.com and write the subscribe in the Subject field, and in the Message, or Text field, send it and wait to see what happens. Either I get subscribed or if the Surname is not yet available on rootsweb.com then I get a msg. back to that effect. Another thing, I have found is that if you try a Surname and it doesn't "take", then after a few wks, or mos. try again - it worked for me for the name CARMAN, and I got an answer from the Webmaster telling me that the website was brand new, that it was CARMAN-ROOTS-D-@rootsweb.com and I was one of the first to subscribe to it. So, it pays to try. Good Hunting in 1999, Patty and do keep in touch. Let me know if you have any further troubles subscribing. Carroll in Snohomish. <><>PLVS VLTRA <><> ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]