Jim -- everyone who came to Caledonia Co., VT came here from somewhere else. Most who settled in Sheffield came from NH. But NH and most of its counties have their own lists, and if I want data or information from them, I subscribe to those lists. I really don't need people forwarding NH messages to the Caledonia list. If someone sees a message on another list, which pertains to a SPECIFIC individual in Caledonia, I think reference to it would be appropriate. But not to families. If I started forwarding every message I see on the families of Berry, Gray, Chesley, Hill, Foss, Libby, etc., the archives would be clogged, and delete keys would neeed replacement. Harman Clark