Greetings: For all of you in the U.S.A., please do what you are planning to do this long weekend safely -- have fun, and come back on Monday. I would rather you continue to dig up dead ancestors, than to join them prematurely. I'm driving to Fort Wayne, Indiana, for a reunion of the descendants of Derrick and Ruth DUTTON of Springfield, Vermont. I *will* be connected at the hotel [grin]. If you post a message with an Independence Day topic, remember please that any message should be CONNECTED TO THIS LIST'S TOPIC IN SOME *VISIBLE* WAY. That means that general, patriotic, non-genealogical messages are not desirable. There will be some leeway for short notes, written by the sender. But anyone who *FORWARDS* such a message to the list will incur my wrath. That means anything from "Will Be Scowled At Fiercely" to "Will Be Banned From The List", depending on the message's contents. Given those restrictions, however, I would like to *ENCOURAGE* all of you to post a message that relates to this list and to someone in your family, that also has a theme of July 4th and/or American Independence. If you are one of the very large number of RootsWeb users who are *NOT* U.S. residents or citizens, please indulge us; this is, after all, a mailing list related to a county in New England, one of the wellsprings of the American Revolution. Thanks in advance for your support of *ON TOPIC* messages and the search for our roots. Darrell RootsWeb List Admin - 5 VT and 1 MA location lists Darrell A. Martin - 16 surnames lists [email protected] - 1 software list