The www.genforum site does have your email address you just have to click on the person who submitted the query and there is their email address. And genforum now notifies you when someone has posted a response to your query. At familyhistory.com they do not have the email addresses available when you read the query you must post it with your query. But they too notify you when someone responds to your query. Hope this helps someone. Happy holidays. Regina Gray