The Wamsley list (with Wamsleyweb issues) is archived on the server. You can "search" the archives, and find the past messages that way, and use this technique to find things that have been posted about specific names for which you are looking. To search the archives, go to web page: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl and type in WAMSLEY (case doesn't matter) as the "name of list" When you get the next screen ...Search the Archive of Messages for WAMSLEY Mailing List ...Examples of searches: ...Keithley ...Lycurgus and Bell ...(Mary and Jones) or (Jackson and County) put the word DIGEST (caps don't matter) in the Query box to see ALL the messages and click search. See below for how the examples above work. Now, I'm not sure why the order is the way it is, but if you look at the Filename of each message you will see see that each has a number. Near as I can tell, the filename is the name of the digest. So, you find filename number 1, then click on [Full] and you will see the digest. If you want it, you can copy/paste it to your word processor, email, or whatever. You can read them in any order, or find 1 and read it, then 2, then 3 etc. As for the samples on searching for a particular combination - If I want to find Samuel Wamsley and Catherine Groendyke in the same message, my query would be: (Samuel Wamsley) and (Catherine Groendyke) Notice the placement of the parentheses. The items in parens keep the words together versus finding Samuel and Catherine would just find messages with both the word Samuel and the word Catherine, but not neccessarily connected. Or, if you are looking for Jesse Wamsley in Randolph county, you could put (Jesse Wamsley) and Randolph or Jesse and Randolph (note no parens this time as you just want to find Jesse and Randolph in the same message. Have fun searching! --        Kathryn Rhinehart Bassett (Pasadena CA)              kathryn.bassett@switchboard.net         "genealogy is my bag" "GH is my soap"     http://pw2.netcom.com/~kathrynb/kathryn.htm