Dan and members,

 We have been looking into these matters and did not want to cause a stir until we got all the facts. 

 No one out there currently has the features that MSNgroups has. No site that the group moves to will be the same as we have it now.

 I have been looking at a lot of sites but decided to look at Multiply since its the only site that will migrate all of our history and information. This first and foremost has to happen or we will loose everything. Weather we copy and paste from the multiply site onto another will remain to be seen but it needs to move there to start. No matter what we do it will be different and new. I hate change more that anyone and I put years into this site but it has to happen and I am looking to make the best of it. We are moving to a new house but we are taking along all of our furnature and they are helping us move it.

 Multiply has groups, privacy settings, administrator settings, no storage limits on pictures, unlimited pages and other things that make it an atractive move. It does have areas that are like myspace but it does not have to be set up that way. It has a blog rather than multiple message boards but after you get used to how the editing and pages work in setting things up it will have a simmilar feel to what we have here now. Of course it will look different and feel different but as we have stated it has to happen and if only just for a short period of time it will be something for us.

 If you like the wonderful scrollers in the site then it should not matter what site you go to as long as you have your good friends along to continue improving and helping the craft of scrolling.

 I have set up an area for the, "Portrait Freedom" family to view finished cuttings of their loved ones that we have done. Anyone can get on the site and navagate it. This is how we would like the new SSP site to be. User friendly and easy to use. You all know how long it took to get things figured out here on MSN when first getting into it.

 This is the site for the family members:

 I just set it up today so I realize the main welcome page needs spruced up and I only have the "A" list links working to the pictures in the portrait locator that we have set up. Dont worry about the tabs at the top and just try to navagate around the site. Imagine you are a family member trying to find your portrait on the site by using the "portrait locator".

 For the family site the set up works well. Will it work well for the message boards? I dont have that set up yet so I cannot confirm anything yet. I plan to give it a try at least to see if it can work.

 We have time to work through this and nothing will happen overnight. You will not be left in the dark and information that has been collected over the years will not vanish. We thank you for your knowledge and help over the many years that we have been around and hope to keep that relationship no matter where we end up.

Thanks for your time and if anyone comes across an area that looks perfect for us give the moderators an email and we will check it out. We have researched many so far.

Gary and moderators SSP