"brenda parker" <fairplay1951@gmail.com> wrote in news:mailman.2151.1200428167.4586.alt-genealogy@rootsweb.com: > And NOBODY"s ancestors were just plain every day people who worked > hard for a living. Mine were. :-) Well, most of them. No kings, castles, princes, or fortunes though. It's been a hard job convincing some of my relatives that we had no castle anywhere, or buried treasure for that matter. Seems to me that being able to trace ancestors (via verifiable documents) back to 1597 is the real treasure! ---- saki@ucla.edu http://sakionline.net/familypage