Please read the following excerpt from Roots Web Review an on-line genealogy news letter. Recently I have seen what appears to be significant amounts of gedcom information coming through the lists causing frustration and unsubscribes on some. World Connect is Rootsweb's site for gedcoms. Here is the information about it. I am not trying to ruffle feathers but thought some might find the information useful. Ann NOTES FROM THE CEO, by Robert R. Tillman o FOLLOW-UP TO LAST WEEK'S WORLDCONNECT ARTICLE. Last week's list of excuses for not uploading a GEDCOM to the WorldConnect Project evidently hit home. The day after ROOTSWEB REVIEW (RWR) was sent, about 350 RootsWeb users uploaded GEDCOMs containing more than 800,000 names to WorldConnect. As of today, there are nearly 19 million names to search on WorldConnect. We hope to top 20 million names by next week. Nevertheless, only about 7,000 GEDCOMs have been uploaded to WorldConnect. (See <http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi> for the exact number.) With the circulation of RWR approaching 400,000, this means that fewer than two percent of you reading this article have uploaded a GEDCOM to WorldConnect. RootsWeb has set a goal of reaching 100 million names uploaded to WorldConnect by the end of 2000. Based on the average number of names uploaded in a GEDCOM to date, if about 40,000 of you (or about 10% of RWR's readers) upload a GEDCOM to WorldConnect before the end of the year, this goal will be achieved. WorldConnect has the potential of growing into one of the most important genealogical resources on the planet, but only if you participate. If you have entered genealogical data into virtually any genealogical software application, you probably can generate a GEDCOM and upload it to <http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/>. If you have any questions about generating, uploading, or editing a GEDCOM file, or if you wish to provide feedback to RootsWeb on how to improve WorldConnect, please post to the WorldConnect Project Suggestion Board at <http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/gedcom>.