Hi, When I first joined this list in 99, I think it was..(I've been on and off this list a number of times) I tried searching the archives for my Hessians surname. To no avail. I believe a list of surnames, First names, units, time served /discharged/deserted, would be a great help to new members. I think we need a project and volunteers who have the resource books to do it. All a person would need to do is put the name of the book in the subject line, then enter how ever many names they felt like extracting for the day.. and send it to the list. each new extraction could have the book name and part 2 or what ever part number they were on in the subject line, and maybe an entry at the bottom of the email stating there was more to come or if the end of the book then that there were no more entries. If interested, just start sending the information as you get time to do it... no need for any special format or anything... What do any of you think? Personally it would have been a great help to me... Nelda List Manager