Hi Alice and All: I did take offense at the way Ann Lander answered. More so because of the shabby way she treated her own ancestry! To think that her grandparents and her parents left Russia to make a better life for themselves and their children to come, yes to not have any cares about where they came from, the fact that they probably left family and friends back there that they would never see nor hear from is really sad. As for genealogy in the schools, it can work if the parents are brought into the situration, and those parents who don't wish their children to do their own, then the children can research a famous person, the town, a particular house. Yes there is the down side of the coin, but genealogy can be taught in such a way that thnigs can be very smooth and no stigma is placed upon the child or children. More on the idea of general genealogy rather than the detailed in-depth search that we genealogists do. Alison _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]