Wow that was great, I sat behind Dottie Braithwait and watched her turn red as Bette told all she had done for EWGS over the years. She is very deserving of being a Distinguished Service Member. I have read some of the old mimeographed bulletins she did, and they are very interesting also. I have been very lucky in doing genealogy for years, Ray Fisher suggested that Prodigy was a good place to learn genealogy and was passing out Prodigy floppies at one meeting, and I had just bought a 2400 baud modem and it came with a Prodigy floppy also. I tried it and really liked being able to look over the shoulder of all the wonderful genealogists there. I read a lot and kept researching, till one day I found out I was related to the Vanderpools of North Carolina. So I sat down and wrote an E-Mail to the Genealogy Expert on Prodigy Myra Vanderpool Gormley. She confirmed we were cousins as her Vanderpools had came from New Amsterdam to North Carolina and then her family went to Indiana, mine went to Tennessee. The problem I have had is I still do not know which of the Vanderpool families that came from New Amsterdam my John Jackie Vanderpool is related to, there were about 5 Vanderpool families that John can fit in, but no proof on any of them. John's son Joseph Married in Tennessee to Margaret Low, a granddaughter of Bette Topp's Swope family. In 1999 when Prodigy was closing due to Y2K problems with their old system. Prodigy started a new service, and most of the people from the old service left, including Myra, so on the new Service I was asked to be the new Prodigy Genealogy Expert, so since October of 1999 I have been doing that. About 2 years ago Prodigy was bought out by SBC Communications, and they decided all the Bulletin Boards would close. The bulletin boards closed October 24, 2003, so I have not been online as much since then. Our web guru decided to move all the files we had collected to Rootsweb, and so the monthly newsletter I had written articles for was moved, and I have continued to write articles for that newsletter. Some of those I have also re-written for Doris and the Bulletin. In 1999 when the original Prodigy closed Myra asked me to start a list for the Prodigy people that were leaving, and that was my first mail list, not long after that I took over the Whitman county list from the nice gentleman that had started it and was moving and was hoping someone from Whitman county would take it on. I really wanted the Spokane county one, but missed out twice before I finally was able to adopt it. Then one day they said there were several more county lists up for adoption, and I went and checked, and also adopted Stevens, Lincoln, Adams and Pend Oreille counties, so starting the EWGS mail list was real easy, I have been administering six other lists for almost 4 years. I will say a genealogy society list is a lot different from a county list though. Charles P.S. Here is a couple of URLS, the first is what our Guru calls a splash page, the place where you can get to everything on our Rootsweb site. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~genealogylinks/ The next one is the newsletter I have helped for a few years with monthly articles. This one is very long so it may wrap, but you need the whole thing http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~genealogylinks/newsltr/archive%20ga te.html