I had been thinking about resigning for about six months. I have been over extended and I have spent far more time on Madison County than I had intended. I never really planned on recording cemeteries there (I have done about 80), and I thought I would do 2-3 Jonathan Smith books each year (with Laurel's there and been 40 in under 3 years). I am neglecting the other counties where I do cemeteries, especially the county where my mother's family is from and where I live. At one point last year the most out of date cemetery I had online was the one where I have 17 ancestors buried (that's bad!). In terms of cemeteries, Madison County was simply one county too many, and it is the most expensive. It costs about $25-$30 out of pocket for every day I spend in cemeteries in Madison County-- 4 days at Brown's, 2 days at Antioch, 3 days at Maple Springs, 3 days at Providence -- it adds up. When I adopted Madison County, I already had three cemetery books, the Goodspeed and Cisco histories, and James Hanna's maps of civil district changes over time at another web site. So starting Madison County was easy. Also, I was one of two people to adopt Madison County. Martha was supposed to have been CC and I was to have been web master. Martha had great plans for a census transcription project. But Martha never did anything and after a while I was no longer able to contact her. When I placed madison County upp for adoption I had hoped that someone on the maillist and active in Madison County genealogy would adopt Madison County. That was not to be. I have several reservations about the new CC but I had no say in her selection. I think Madison County will go back to being inactive as under the previous two CCs. David