Hello List Admin and Members,                  I would just like to take the time to THANK all of you for your wonderful post. Weather good or bad, all of your opinions count to me. I am sorry for any inconvenience to any of you. I have a handful of folks telling me about a gibberish problem, but after careful checking , and talking  to AOL- live, I am informed that it is not on my end. And it seems to be with the DIGEST portion of the posting??? I am merely a geneologist with info that has not yet reached the web, and my intention was to get it to all of you in FREE GENEOLOGY. My intention was also to get it into the ROOTSWEB archives. Rootsweb has been a tool for geneologist , that allows us to share and have the means to connect our family's freely. I owe them alot. And I also owe every poster who has taken time to post. I want you all to know that I plan on answering each and every post that was sent to me, asking me questions and all of that sort of stuff. I exspecially want to thank all of you LIST ADMINISTRATORS for allowing the info to reach the Rootsweb archives. It will be there for generations to come. There is so much more coming out of Washington DC about the FREEDMEN. It has been long overdue. I remember back before Ex President Clinton left office and he made the statement that the FREEDMEN RECORDS needed to be indexed and taken care of. Well as a young Freedmen researcher, I have had some of the best folks to work with from Washingtion . I have been told that there is much more to come, at a later date. So I will leave you with this question. Do I continue to post to free geneology so that your children will have the records? Isn't Rootsweb for the purpose of free geneology? Is it worth a few DIGEST in gibberish to have it in your archives? Last but not least, my work on your list at this time is complete, so I will be moving on. I thank you all for your patience .  Please visit the link below. Bright Star Freedmen Project                                                            <A HREF="http://www.ancestry.com/library/view/news/articles/2906.asp">Click here: Ancestry.com - Freedmen's Bureau Records Preservation Act Signed into Law</A> On Monday, November 6, President Clinton signed into law the Freedmen's Bureau Records Preservation Act of 2000 (H.R. 5157, now Public Law No: 106-444). This law ensures preservation of the records of the Freedmen's Bureau. http://www.ancestry.com/library/view/news/art