Dear Cousins All; Thanks you all for the wonderful information that you are contributing to the (originally Pickleshimer) family history. The web page is an excellent idea and onre that will bring many benefits to us all. I am a long time family history researcher (getting longer all the time, it seems) and have numerous family newsletters and web pages that provide information - almost too much at times. I am descended from Abraham Adam P'hymer b. 1775, son Samuel b. 1813 and son Lewis P'hymer b. KY 1832, about whom there is no information in the famous "book" (Volume I, anyway) by cousin John. This is because Lewis changed his name sometime before his immigration from KY to IL to the Hill Country of Texas to Lewis Preston SIMER. There is a much simpler variation for you! Of course, if you have read the "book" about Samuel and his wife and all the additional children that she had AFTER her hubby's death, you can understand why he might want to change his name. Lewis Preston Simer and his wife Mariah Roberts (whom he married in 1855 in Illinois) have a tremendous progeny (did I spell that right?) mostly in Texas. My own line descends further via Sarah Catherine Simer (Thomas Burks) > Bertie Burks (Clarence Edward Self) > Carl Self (Ruby Orene Vaughan) > Genie Ve Self (Philip Newlin) and yours truly, David M. Newlin. I recommend that there be some cross references in the webnet address page to the various name spellings. They should not be too hard to register since most of them, except perhaps mine, are so odd. The information that everyone has been sending is just tremendous. Even though my primary interests are my NEWLIN and SELF lines, I have seen so much good come from web pages and the rootsweb net. If anyone wishes any of the infomration on the SIMER line on down, please advise and I will send you disc, file, paperwork, etc. Thanks everyone, especially Cousin John and the web page, again. Cousin David in El Paso