Fellow Bird Researchers and Allen: I want to strongly second the views earlier on the value of the obituaries for all Bird researchers. Yesterday, Allen also put several on the Mullins list (and who knows what other lists). THESE OBITS GO IN THE ARCHIVES. They may be extremely helpful to another researcher some day. I almost always search the archives before I do a post. I personally have put on lists my familly's descendants to the 1930s or so from back to the ggg grandparents where I am pretty much stuck in several cases. In most of these cases, I have figured out I am a party of one descended from that particular couple on the list. So, I say thanks to Allen (and should have yesterday). Janet Hunter, ggg granddaughter of John Byrd and Nancy Couts (TN>MO)