Hello, Try this it is very very very good. Go to Scotlandsplaces yes thats right places not people. Use the search option to find a little known place in your tree. Maybe they will have some photographs and maybe not. Here comes the good bit Hit the button that says Plot Results on a Virtual Globe You will be prompted to download a .kml file Download the kml file somehwere sensible and double click on it - this will fire up Google Earth Your location is now shown on google earth and you can add notes to the location ie Granda Wilson built his whisky distillery here, wee McWillie Wilson born here 1863. Am still experimenting - you can put in hyperlinks and open up web pages but I havent been able to put in a hyperlink that will open up files on my PC. And as a free bonus you get Lat and Long of your location for input to other programs. I am quite excited about this as I have been severely dissappointed by programs claiming to map family trees but failing abysmally ANybody know a similar location for English places try ? This Gazzetteer is good http://www.gazetteer.co.uk/index.htm - it wont give you a kml file but it will help with obscure placenames Bill