Although these lists are not a platform for ads, I thought this might come under the heading of 'WARNING'! Your e-mail address book could be invaded and 50 of your closest friends, relatives, or fellow genealogists could be getting emails for Pornographic web sites. Maybe you are getting one and don't know how it got started! There is a virus going around called Mailissa or Melissa. The virus typically arrives in an e-mail headed: Important Message from (users name). The test of the message reads "Here is a document you asked for...don't show to anyone else ;-)" The virus is transmitted through Microsoft Word 97 attachments to e-mail messages. Once a user activated the virus by opening the attachment, the virus culls up to 50 names from the user's electronic address book and sends itself automatically to those other users. Do not open or delete it. You can avoid spreading the virus by simply refusing to open the e-mail attachment. (For you techies out there....It infects MS Word 97 document by adding a new VBA5 (macro) module names Melissa. Although there is nothing unique in the infection routine of this macro virus, it has a payload that utilizes MS Outlook to send an attachment of the infected MS Word 97 document being opened. Symantec Anti-virus has a sample of this virus in house and expects to have a new definition set available to detect and repair this virus within 24 hours.) HERE IS WHY IT IS IMPORTANT TO ALL OF US: It is not uncommon to any/all of us to share our family trees or documentation. A lot of it saved on Word. It would not be uncommon for us to get unsolicited attachments of information when we realize how many people we communicate with on a daily basis and the kinds formats and types of information we exchange. Sometimes we are trying to pinpoint exact names, middle initials, or dates, and we send 'what we have' rather than retype it. Many of us are just beginners and don't have sophisticated software applications....such as family tree maker...so it comes in Word format. Kathy