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'''Update 7 January 2020: Beginning March 2nd, 2020 all Rootsweb Mailing Lists will be discontinued. Mailing list archives will remain available and searchable'''.
==Genealogy==
===Rootsweb INDIA===
There have been many changes to the List, mainly during 2018.
:Currently, the RootsWeb mailing lists are now available to use, meaning you can now send and receive email on RootsWeb email lists. Any email that is sent will go directly into a '''[https://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/hyperkitty/list/india@rootsweb.com/ new archive]'''. During 2018 it was said "We are in the process of importing the old archives into the new system which will take some time". It is believed that this process has been completed for the India List, although it seems possible that there are some past posts which may have been "lost"
:Replies to a post are not immediately obvious. To view replies to a post, click on the active link in the post title which will take you to a new page which includes both the original post and replies.
[https://mailinglists.rootsweb.com/listindexes/details?country=India#INDIA Subscribe] to the India- British- Raj List or Digest, on a similar basis to the India List above.
'''[https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/india-british-raj.rootsweb.com/ Search the India- British- Raj List Archives]'''.
===Other Mailing Lists===
====Rootsweb====
*[https://mailinglists.rootsweb.com/listindexes/ All Rootsweb Mailing Lists]. :[https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/ Search All Rootsweb Mailing Lists Archives]*[https://mailinglists.rootsweb.com/listindexes/details?country=Sri%20Lanka%20/%20Ceylon#SRILANKA Sri Lanka/Ceylon Mailing List] Effectively inactive.:[https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/srilanka.rootsweb.com/ Search Sri Lanka/Ceylon Mailing List Archives]
*Straits Settlements
**[https://mailinglists.rootsweb.com/listindexes/details?country=Malaysia#MALAYSIA Malaysia Mailing List] *:[https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/malaysia.rootsweb.com/ Search Malaysia Mailing List Archives] **[https://mailinglists.rootsweb.com/listindexes/details?country=Singapore#SINGAPORE Singapore Mailing List] Currently inactive.*:[https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/singapore.rootsweb.com/ Search Singapore Mailing List Archives] *[https://mailinglists.rootsweb.com/listindexes/details?country=Indonesia#INDONESIA Indonesia Mailing List]. Effectively inactive:[https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/indonesia.rootsweb.com/ Search Indonesia Mailing List Archives]
There are also Ancestry Message Boards for these countries, see [https://www.ancestry.com/boards/localities.asia/mb.ashx Message Boards: Asia]
*[http://www.rootschat.com/ Rootschat.com]
*[http://www.napoleonicwarsforum.com/ The Napoleonic Wars Forum 1792-1815]
*Victorian Wars Forum is now no longer operating, and parts only of the Forum are still available in an archived form: if you have a previously saved URL, check in the [https://archive.org/web/web.php#forum Internet Archive Wayback Machine] whether that particular URL has been archived. (Archive.org). Alternatively scroll through [https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.victorianwars.com/ Victorian Wars Forum* URLs which have been captured for this domain [victorianwars.com<nowiki>]</nowiki>] is a message board . Note results can be reordered for British Military Campaigns from 1837 to 1902, dates etc. Scroll through and in fact continues for select URLs which contain viewtopic as part of the pre World War 1 periodURL. Many of Archive.org. Unfortunately the posts contain detailed information and/or illustrations or photographs. A good entire site if you want the uniform of a soldier of this period identifiedwas never archived.
*[https://www.greatwarforum.org Great War Forum] is a message board for the First World War.
*[http://ww2talk.com/ WW2Talk Forum]
