Not to be picking here but it would make more sense to me to send a message to the list posting some information about your line or asking a question. This would accomplish a few different things. 4. You will know that you are still subscribed and your e-mail is working. 3. You may pass along much needed information for some poor soul that has been searching for years for the information you just shared. 2. You may receive a piece of information that connects your line to that elusive ancestor you have been looking for so many years. 1. There won't be 6,000,000,000,000 messages from around the world that someone received your test message. Just a thought. Billy Carr Researching CARR, COPELAND, BILBREY, LEDBETTER, GORE and related families of Overton Co., TN My most elusive ancestors are the parents of Thomas CARR b 1783 in Virginia and Rebecca (possibly Tipton?) b. 12-28-1803 in Tennessee