Fletch: I am not a computer whiz and much of the terminalogy is GREEK. I have a 486 PC & am using Windows 95. I couldn't retrieve messages from the RootsWeb Archives. After bringing up http://www.klink.net/~fab/ixpref.html I tried the following, according to your instructins. Guillaume 1590 bc Martaize, France 1997 09 30/189 No bells, no information, nothing. What did I not do in the search procedures? Martha