I have just been using the new search engine (still in the beta testing stage) for all the Rootsweb Mailing List archives. Unlike the earlier search engine, this will search across all the mailing lists (you can restrict to one mailing list in the Advanced Search option) for their complete? time periods. The old search engine only allows searches by mailing list, by year - and you have to know the mailing list name. The new engine also allows adjacent word searches if you put the words inside double quote marks, eg "John Addis". The new search engine page is at: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search The original search engine page is at: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/ The list of Rootsweb Mailing Lists is at: http://lists.rootsweb.com/ Cheers, John John Addis-Smith Thurleigh, Bedfordshire, England

A correction: The **original** Rootsweb Mailing Lists search engine page is actually at: http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl This page takes you to browse listings (month by month) for all messages on a particular mailing list, the name of which you need to enter correctly: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/ Cheers, John John Addis-Smith Thurleigh, Bedfordshire, England