Love that article...and it's so true. Anyone who is not prepared to find odd things should not venture into genealogy. You are who all those people in the past made you. My most (in)famous ancestor was half French-Canadian and half Native. He was the only person in North America to be executed (unjustly) on the wheel by Governor Kerlerec (who was imprisoned for malfeasance). This execution is believed to have caused many French-allied Natives to go over to the British side, which helped France lose its foothold in North America. It outraged, not only the French colonial populace, but everyone in France. This began the movement to find a more humane form of execution.....which eventually brought about the guillotine. This same ancestor had a wife and four children when he eloped to Cuba with his (Pascagoula) neighbor's young daughter. We believe our ancestress was born in Cuba, which is why we can't find any birth or baptism record for her. She does show up in her marriage record and a zillion children when she and her Mobile-born husband move to New Orleans. So, what else is new? Keep digging. Rita http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WestBankGenealogySociety Click "join this group" to set up your ID and password, then sign in each time you visit. --------------------------------- Building a website is a piece of cake. Yahoo! Small Business gives you all the tools to get online.