Hello everyone, I've been asked to pass along to you the following message. ---------------------------------------------------- Starting at 8 a.m. PST (11 a.m. EST; 4 p.m. GMT) on Friday, 23 February, RootsWeb will begin a planned temporary downtime for maintenance of its servers and hosting process. It will limit this downtime as much as possible, and will return with increased performance and reliability for future growth. The downtime should take no longer than 24 hours. In the meantime, please take time to visit RootsWeb's sister sites -- Ancestry.com and FamilyHistory.com -- where you will find additional tools such as message boards, communities, and databases to help you in the search for your ancestors. Thank you for your patience. The Rootsweb Staff ---------------------------------------------------- While Rootsweb takes Friday off, this would be a good time to visit GenForum or some of the online gen databases.... Genealogy Forum - message boards -- http://www.genforum.com/ FamilySearch - Mormon/LDS records -- http://www.familysearch.com/ Custom Search - http://www.familysearch.com/Search/searchaf.asp Ancestry.com - over 600 million names -- http://www.ancestry.com/ GenCircles - new site, but a good one -- http://www.gencircles.com/ FirstFamilies - a registry - http://business.gorge.net/aff/dbindex.htm Good luck in your research! LaRae listmgr.