Carl, Barbara, Pete, Rose and Ray Howdy fella Birdwells ........... OK OK OK OK ... I get who he is now ... heh ..... Thanks for all the friendly replies and greetings ... While ya'll spent the past few months working on the Birdwell Reunion, I was busy working on my 40th high school reunion in San Diego ... We had a blast ... I've even made two trips back since August to visit old friends .. We had over 200 at the reunion and I had seen only two of them in the past 40 years !! I have done absolutely no genealogy work on any of my lines in about 6 months now ... I'm sorta rusty .... Anyway, if the creek don't rise, i hope to retire out there one day in the near future ... Who says "you can't go back" ??? Jer