There certainly is such a search brought to you by the fine people at Rootsweb. Not only are they archiving lists they are archiving GenWeb sites, US Census and more. Go to the following URL and just put in the name you want to search such as Rich-L (all lists that Rootsweb maintains can be searched this way) you will be given a year to pick from such as 1997, or 1998 or 1999 pick your year then you can look for what ever name you want lets say you want to look for George Rich you would put the following as a search argument george and rich these would find all queries that had the word george and rich. like george henderson and jacob rich. if you wanted george rich look for "george rich" if you want to see all the queries just ask for rich. When you get your queries you will be given the opportunity of what part of the message to look at. Full, subject, submitter, body, etc. Folks this is a wealth of information available to those who want to take the effort. Jim Lantrip, (my late wife was a Rich for Hamilton Co. Ill.) ----- Original Message ----- From: Charon Joy van Tellingen <vantcha@charlie.cns.iit.edu> To: <RICH-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, October 24, 1999 10:16 AM Subject: searchable archive for Rich-L? Hello everyone, Is there an searchable archive for the messages posted to this list? There is so much valuable information here and awful lot of duplication that a means to search previous postings would be so helpful. Just curious... Charon Joy