In a message dated 98-02-20 09:59:57 EST, you write: << I find it very annoying for the posting of 16 entries by the same person in my mail box at one time. One posting including all names would have been sufficent. Gaye >> I have to disagree. Repeatedly it has been requested that we enter the SURNAMES we are searching under SUBJECT. If someone has more surnames than will fit in the title line, then someone is going to miss something if their surname is not in the heading. It has been suggested that they be broken into smaller posts. I sent out 9 postings. I prefer to group my related names and connect them rather than have someone think that because I have 2 names listed they are connected when in actuality they are from different families I am researching. It is a waste of energy for someone to see (for example) Whitney and Gordon on the same list and get all excited and write a long post with all their connecting information, only for me to say - sorry but they are not connected in any way, one being my family and the other being my former husband's family. It is easier for many of us to do all of them at one time than to do each individually, when you have to go back and forth between programs to get the information sorted for posting. I also was preparing for what appeared to be a computer crash and wanted to send these that I had in my file folder before the system crashed. Jo