Happy New Year, I hope that everyone is having a wonderful new year. School starts back tomorrow, and yes I am looking forward to it. I much prefer my summer break when the weather is warm. I having been receiving so many bounced e-mails from the list recently that I thought that I should let you all know what happens when the rootsweb computer listserve robot thing-a-ma-jig gets a bounced mail, due to a mail box being full usually but with AOL, hey sometimes that stuff just bounces. With 3 bounces from the same address, the computer will unsubscribe you automatically. The bounced e-mails are sent to me as list owner. I used to try and forward them on to the person, but I gave up. When a mailbox is full, it's full. I now delete any bounced mail that I receive from the list. Don't feel bad if the computer at rootsweb unsubsribes you. It unsubscribed me yesterday and I had to resubscribe. I can't understand why it did. It told me that I had too many bounces but all of the bounced mail comes to me and none of mine came back to me. My mailbox couldn't have been full because I check my e-mail everyday. I get 50-70 messages a day now (I am on the NC-SC list and a lot come via that list) and there have been times when I have seen 400 or so in my mail box when I didn't check my mail for 4 or 5 days for some reason for another. I think that it messed up. I have checked my mail everyday since the holiday started. (I missed checking on Tues. sometimes due to a class I was taking but that's over with now.) So, what I am attempting to say is that that computer robot can make an error. Just resubscribe. I have the digest set to go out every 24 hours or when it gets to a certain size, whichever comes first. The 24 hours usually. Of course if there are no postings it won't go out. I am now using my spare research time going through old newspapers in the Sumter County Archives. (In the basement of the Sumter County Genealogical Society building. Actually the building belongs to the county and the archives and rents the top to the Society for $100 per month.) I am transcribing everything that I see that might be of genealogical interest. This is going to take me a very long time. The first box that I was handed has a variety of old papers from Columbia and Charleston. Some as old as 1856 and some as "new" as 1929. It will take a long time because I am reading a lot of the stories. They are so enjoyable. I liked this story from the Carolina Herald in the year 1856. (I am telling it as I remember.) A man in Ohio filed for divorce. He and his wife had been married for almost two years but he was suing her for divorce on the grounds of fraud because he said that she was not fulfilling the marriage contract. They had been married only on few days when he came home and found her gone. She had steadfastly refused to come back and he had just finally given up hope. Her statement was that she was glad that he had filed for divorce. If he hadn't, she had intended to do so herself because she would never have married him if she had known that he had a bald head. The judge granted the divorce. Happy New Year, Cindy