Hi Jim (Blair) By now, you will definitely consider me as a pain in the "rear end". Sorry Pal! There are things I WANT to know - not things I NEED to know, but I get jolly irritable if I can't find logical answers. My mail box gets chokkers with "There's a new member.........." - So! Big deal! I was a new member but only you acknowledged it! I do not need to be "acknowledged" by all and sundry. Like everyone else on these lists, we are out to help one another. So - why do we have to be told there's a new member (or whatever the words are -----I think I might be cranky??!). Sorry to all, but yes -- I am cranky! People in America are fearful for their lives. Every few words in their mails include the word 'war' and I have had lots of these. Can we (please?) just talk about the histories of our families (and their skeletons)? Let's face it, we're all related via Adam and Eve. (No hysterics allowed) What a grand family we are?! Bev [email protected] Sunshine Coast, Qld, Australia Researching: BELL HARRISON KERLIN WILLIS [Ireland] BARKER BARNETT CANTLE COURTNEY DALTON YOUNG/YOUNGS [England] GIESEMANN HANSEN HENDRIKSEN TIMM [Prussia, Denmark]