Dear Cousins, The first page of the William Pennington of Anne Arundel County Study is UP! I keep finding one more thing and one more thing I want to add, being perfectionistic about these things. The links on the pages should be up sometime tonight. I am trying to demonstrate how kinship connection radiates outward from each community. Also I am trying to demonstrate that regardless of the surname, the research can be successfully practiced by using the methodology shown here. http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads/Wmaa/index.html This first page demonstrates how to take a secondary source and assess and check it's accuracy against other records. Then begins the job of genealogically evaluating the information you've gleaned. Additional pages will demonstrate setting up chronologies and databases. The point is that genealogy programs do not do any of these things. They store your information, but they cannot replace plain old-fashioned reasoning. What computers and the internet can do is put you in touch with fellow researchers, and let you access information it would have taken a gadzillion years to find otherwise. I always learn a lot myself as I develop these things, and I so hope it will help all of you as well. I have been operating under a handicap again -- I moved my old computer and now it won't reveal all the secrets stored in it -- principally my e-mails and addresses from everyone, and many of my files I needed for this study! Also, my MS Outlook Express on this computer will receive but not send. I have a girlfriend who explains contrary machines this way: "They sense our fear!" But, onward and upward despite the darn things! Love, Your Cousin, Carolyn