<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> Are you looking for other celiacs in your area? Are you hoping to find celiac-friendly restaurants and health food stores while you are on vacation? Do you need to know a good GI specialist for some out-of-town relative who might also have celiac disease? The best people to answer these questions are celiacs who live in the the same area. And the best place to look for these people is in a series of reference files, available from the listserve. You can go to the World Wide Web to find our local support group listings, at this URL: http://rdz.acor.org/lists/celiac/index.html#support You can also get the files you want via e-mail, by sending a note to [log in to unmask] with the appropriate command(s). (These commands are explained below.) The United States listings have gotten too large to keep in a single file, so we now have a separate file for each of the 50 states and for Washington, DC. These files are named GRPUS-ss, with the "ss" being the standard 2-letter abbreviation for the state, as used by the US postal service. So, if you were going on vacation to the Grand Canyon and were seeing other sites in Nevada, Utah, and Arizona, you could get a list of local contacts from these states by sending these commands in a note to the St. Johns e-mail address listed above: GET CELIAC GRPUS-NV GET CELIAC GRPUS-UT GET CELIAC GRPUS-AZ Listings for Canada, Finland, Italy, and the national USA groups can be found in files named GROUPScc, with the "cc" being the standard 2-letter country abbreviation (CA, FI, IT, or US). All other country listings can be found in the GROUPSIN reference file. So, if you decided to take a jaunt over to Finland and Norway, you could get a list of contacts by sending these commands in a note to the St. Johns e-mail address listed above: GET CELIAC GROUPSFI GET CELIAC GROUPSIN If you need help for an area for which there are no contacts listed, or if the listed contacts are unable to answer your questions, then you can try posting your question to the CELIAC list. Just be sure to include the location in the post's subject; for example, "Looking for restaurants in Wheeling, West Virginia". And PLEASE try the local contacts first; this list is so busy that many subscribers have trouble keeping up with the daily mail. Incidentally, if you know of groups or contacts that are not listed, please send me an e-mail note at <[log in to unmask]> and let me know about them. For the listowners, -- -- Jim Lyles .............. Home: [log in to unmask] -- Holly, Michigan, USA ... Work: [log in to unmask] --