I just want to say to all those with whom I have had communications with during the past year a thank you for your friendship, information and encouragement. It has been exciting and fascinating to learn so much about our early families via the lists and individually. Thanks to the many contacts on these lists I almost know those relatives that I never knew as a boy. Thank you once again and may you all enjoy this festive season with lots of family. This year we look like having all our children together for the first time in many years and maybe the last time ever. As the family grows the contact seems to lessens. God be with each and everyone of you and I look forward in 2004 to maybe doing something worthwhile with the knowledge you have provided. SO I will be back to annoy you all after the season is passed. Merry Christmas Albert Grulke in sunny Melbourne researching Grulke, Volker, Gill, Harvey, Kummerow, Mutze, Proposch, Hoffmann among other names