As a help to new members joining the List I thought the information below on the Archives available at Rootsweb may be useful, and I'd like to suggest you keep it for future reference. Many thanks to George W. Durman of the Virus-Discussion List for the original text and for permitting me to adapt it for use on this List. (PLEASE NOTE: The Threaded Archives are NOT working right now!!!!!) (I'm posting the instructions below, in case you want to use them later when the Archives do become available.) ********************************** >From time to time, as new subscribers join us, I receive questions about the ARCHIVES for these Lists. So, it's time to post instructions and URLs again, so that you can read those ARCHIVES. To start, every email that has ever been posted to a Mailing List is archived at Rootsweb. That means that you may do a search to read any past messages that might be of interest to you. This is especially helpful for new users who might want to know if a certain surname, subject, state, county, etc., has been discussed in the past. Basically, there are TWO different ARCHIVE search engines at Rootsweb: Karen's Archive, AKA Isearch and The Threaded Archives The differences between the two are kind of complicated, and too lengthy to discuss here. My recommendation is that you just try both of them and see which fits your purpose better. (If you wish to search by year, "The Threaded Archives" is the best choice.) There are two ways to do a search on either of these search engines: 1) Go to the Main page for the search and type in the NAME of the List you want to search, in our case, you would type in: SCHOFIELD (For ISearch) http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl (For Threaded Archives) http://archiver.rootsweb.com/search.html 2) Go DIRECTLY to the search for a specific list: (For ISearch) http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=SCHOFIELD-L (For Threaded Archives) http://archiver.rootsweb.com/SCHOFIELD-L If you want to search a List, and don't know the exact name, or don't know if a List actually exists, you can go to the Main page and look through the list of Lists; just find the List you are interested in and click on it: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/list-index.html Some of these ARCHIVES only go back a few months (recently created), while others go back several years. There are tricks to typing in the correct search words or phrases, so be sure to read the tips at each site. If anyone needs to search the ARCHIVES, and has trouble doing so, feel free to send an email back here to the List Owner. Please explain what you were looking for, which URL you used, what selections you made, what search word(s) or phrase(s) you typed in, etc. On another note about the ARCHIVES, please remember that EVERY email to Lists is "archived". That means that if you see an email and reply with "Me Too", "I agree", "I would like a copy", etc., and nothing else, your reply gets archived. Such replies are what I consider to be unnecessary, since they contribute nothing to the Lists, but do take up valuable space at Rootsweb. This is just a gentle "reminder" to you to carefully consider what you send to a List. Is what you're sending something you would like to have permanently archived for eternity? Does your post or reply actually provide anything useful for others? Would it be better to send a post or reply to an INDIVIDUAL, rather than the entire List? If you're criticizing or castigating someone, would you rather it go to the individual, or would you like it permanently archived for all times? These are just some of the things you should consider before sending an original post or a reply. Remember, if you lose your temper and reply hastily, your words are forever etched into the hard drives at Rootsweb, for all the world to read, FOREVER! Hope this helps, any problems with it please mail me at address below or [email protected] -- Cheers, Anne ICQ# 32010967 (nickie) mailto:[email protected] Rootsweb ListOwner: Docwra, Dockery, Garton, Hampson and Schofield still hunting Nichols, Martin, Fletcher, Ford, Chandler