I remember back in 1996 doing a search on one of my ancestors and a match coming up for the archives of Ballard County Kentucky, which included a link to the Ballard County Genweb page...well that started my "love" of the internet and the GenWeb project and here I am today. We have all seen a lot of changes. Yes, Rootsweb had to start getting some advertising dollars to fund the equipment that all of us have used at one time or another, I don't fault them for that. There are a lot of genealogy lovers out there and it causes a massive amount of traffic. Doddie, I for one am sorry to see you go, your Tazwell County page is art at its truest form packed full of wonderful information! Linda, I don't fault you either, you've always been nothing but helpful. I try to stay out of the "politics" that fly around on every state list that I'm on, my policy is "if it isn't directed at me, ignore it". I have such fun with my pages and meet so many wonderful people, and a few of them I'm even able to help.....last year I helped a daughter find her father when he had been searching for her for 30 years, it was personal for them but made my heart swell to think that I had a part in it. Bless all of you that have had a part in changing peoples lives.......you give them information that provides them with a missing part of their past, you provide companionship to a lot of shut in elderly people, you provide the missing link to where they grew up, you stir their memories of long ago places. To me that is the important part of "what we do". Whether that information is in an archives, on a County page or on a family page, it all takes them back............ Tami P. Ramsey tami@i-plus.net Pulaski County VA GenWeb Coordinator & Listowner http://www.rootsweb.com/~vapulask/ Washington County VA GenWeb Coordinator http://www.rootsweb.com/~vawashin/ Overton Co. TN GenWeb Coordinator & Listowner http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnoverto/overton.htm Fentress & Pickett Co. TN GenWeb Coordinator http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnfentre/fent.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnpicket/pick.htm Webmaster Wilderness Road Regional Museum http://www.rootsweb.com/~vapulask/wrrm/index.htm Webmaster for New River Historical Society Homepage http://www.rootsweb.com/~vanrhs/ RAMSEY Family Webpage http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ramsey/ SULSER Family Webpage & Listowner http://sulser.rootsweb.com/