Hi and welcome to the Waterford list!! Today is our "birthday" so to speak, and so I want to congratulate you on being the first to sign up and join! We have about 12 members right now. My idea for this list is to (1) assist each other in researching in the County Waterford area and (2) answer questions about some basic genealogy queries. Most general queries are regularly dealt with on the IrelandGenWeb list, of which I am list monitor, but posting them here is OK too..... as long as we don't get too far away from searching in Waterford. I would like this list to be a welcome place for you to ask your questions and post what you are looking for. If you need help please remember to give us enough information so we can help you - tell us what you know, tell us what you don't know, tell us what you want to know. General questions like "looking for information on John McCarthy" won't get you much of a response. Please write down my email above and contact me if you have any problems with receiving the list messages. Be sure to save the welcome message you received when you subscribed -- it has ALL the commands you will need if you need to switch to digest or regular mailing, or if you need to unsubscribe for any reason. Be patient with me! I am learning this list management as we go, but I will do my best to make this a fun and helpful place to be!! So now, let's all introduce ourselves and see what everyone is working on..... Happy Searching, Maura ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Maura Petzolt Mobile, Alabama USA mpetzolt2@webtv.net =============================== visit the IrelandGenWeb home page at http://www.worldgenweb.org/ireland/index.html