Nancy,

Not to tie up this thread, if you click on my “signature” (techie101 in blue) anywhere in the forum, it will bring up a profile screen. At the botton is “Send …private message”.

or in any of my posts, on the left side under the small avatar (picture), you will see a green flag. If you run your cursor over it, it will say Instant Message. Clicking on it will take you an instant message screen.

I will send you some information the same way.
To retrieve it, sign on the forum as you did and look at the far right top of the screen for Messages. Clicking on the blue link will take you to the messages screen.

Later, ;D