I am a Rootsweb supporter I contribute annually to rows which is keep in business largely by donations. When you donate you become a Rootsweb supporter and are allowed to submit surnames for a special service that Rootsweb provides. And that is a periodic message giving you information on new postings of the surname that you selected. I chose BOTTOM and here is a small sample of the type of information that you receive. ------------------------------------------------------ This database has about 200,000 records. Its URL is http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/wisconsin/wisconsin.pl The information below is a subset of what is available at the URL above. If you'd like to go straight to the complete record, skipping the home page of the dataset, replace XXXX in http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/wisconsin/wifull.pl?XXXX with the digits appearing at the end of the line (under the column titled "offset"). Last name First name Init Date County Acres Offset BOTTOMS FRANCIS 1856 Vernon 0.0000 42427050 BOTTOMS FRANCIS 1856 Vernon 202.3400 42427314 BOTTOMS JOHN 1855 Grant 80.0000 41790926 BOTTOMS JOSEPH 1855 Iowa or Lafayette 80.0000 41525211 ================================== Arkansas Pre-1908 Homestead and Cash Entry Patents, from the General Land Office's Automated Records Project. The data from the CD-ROM was extracted and prepared for the archives of the ARGenWeb project by Joy Fisher, then indexed by RootsWeb. This database has about 200,000 records. Its URL is http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/arkland/arkland.pl Last name First name Init County Sec Twp Rng Acres ---Date--- Warrant Name and/or Remarks BOTTOMS ALFRED Lee 29 2N 4E 160 1828/12/15 BOTTOMS ENOS (AR) BOTTOMS JOHN A Lawrence 9 18N 3W 0 1885/06/30 (AR) BOTTOMS JOHN A Lawrence 9 18N 3W 160 1885/06/30 (AR) BOTTOMS MARY Cleveland 7 8S 11W 39.65 1894/03/15 (AR) BOTTOMS ROBERT Scott 12 3N 28W 0 1883/02/10 (AR) BOTTOMS ROBERT Scott 12 3N 28W 160.76 1883/02/10 (AR) BOTTOMS ROBERT Scott 7 3N 27W 0 1883/02/10 (AR) BOTTOMS ROBERT Scott 7 3N 27W 0 1883/02/10 (AR) BOTTOMS THOMAS N Scott 11 3N 28W 0 1885/05/09 (AR) BOTTOMS THOMAS N Scott 11 3N 28W 0 1885/05/09 (AR) BOTTOMS THOMAS N Scott 12 3N 28W 160 1885/05/09 (AR) ================================== Remember My new Email address is JLANTRIP@prodigy.net