For Jan, LOL, obviously when you said lucky you who live in WI, you haven't had the pleasure of one of their WINTERs.... hee hee hee. I migrated to CA and live there now, and it did take about a year before people actually trusted me with the WI sites and THIER information. On the mailing list, I begged and pleaded for help and then finally went for pity about the third year... Whining I posted "If you don't give up the info, the site will never be of any use..." A month later, I was up to my eyeballs. Now I have "helpers" who do all the work (typing obits, transcribing cemetery indexes, etc) and then I put the stuff up with full credit to them... So I am like the webmaster, and they are the actual people who put up the info... Another thing I had great luck with is purchasing books on the local area, for example some genealogical societies actually publish their info, like LaFayette county, so I can do research, and lookups and encourage people to buy the books, as it is copyrighted and can't be put on the web. In some cases, I am asking permission to put up indexes of published works... I share all your pain who have said 1) IT's A LOT OF WORK, and 2) INFO when you don't live there is hard to come by... But share in your JOY, when you send out I FOUND A LONG LOST RELATIVE!!!! By and far, the WI CCs are doing a ton of great stuff, and yes, there might be a few counties lacking, but, I firmly believe our users need to step up to the plate also... Some of these people are TAKERs and we need to encourage them to be SHARERs when we help them find something... Also, sometimes I find I am clueless to all the resources available, and then you hit the right person and get a flood of info so now you are concerned you can't get it posted fast enough... Nuff said, keep up the great work, I appreciate it tons, as I live outside the state and use WI pages a lot!!! R/S MAK --- WIGEN-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos -- now, 100 FREE prints! http://photos.yahoo.com