In a message dated 10/21/2006 3:00:13 AM Central Standard Time, [email protected] writes: Keep up the nostalgia!!!! We are genealogists and because of it we are historians too. Lots of us are old enough that we need to dump our memories NOW onto the younger ones so the information in them will not be lost. I spent 2 weeks last month in Birmingham with my last remaining 84 year old aunt asking all the questions I had about her parents (my grandparents), her siblings, her friends, where they lived, how they lived, who certain people were, all that sort of thing. We had a grand time, laughed a lot, got lots done, but I still left with a bunch of questions unasked and left for the next visit, which I anticipated would be Christmas. Unfortunately she fell & broke her hip the day I left, and didn't survive the surgery. I am sitting here so glad to have asked all those little things, and realizing that I will just have to find the other information somewhere else. Whatever you know - pass it along. When you die, leave a will stating what should be done with your records and files, making sure the valuable information you have collected is not lost again. Write things now, don't put them off. Etc... Don't really want to turn this into a lecture, but I think you get the point. Well said, Alice, Laura