Hi family, I have TWO ANNOUNCEMENTS in this message. We have TWO cousins to thank tonight and Canadian and German researchers are having their day in the sun. :) First, an addition to the vital records section that I failed to point out to all of you last night in my first message... Bruce Bowers (bowers6254@telocity.com) extracted 401 Bauer, Baur, Bower and Bowers death records from the Ontario, Canada index for the years 1869 to 1919. These records are the first international death records at the site and we are indeed privileged to house them at the Homestead. It isn't always a small feat to read a microfilm and pull each record out, but Bruce did that for us. Bruce, we thank you so much for giving us your time and sharing the data with us. YOU ARE VERY APPRECIATED!! You'll find the index in the vital records section (in the main hallway) at Bower Family Homestead <http://bowercommunity.com/homestead>. Second, the German marriage database I told you about last night is now online. Once again, we owe our thanks to cousin Glenn Geisheimer <germanic42@home.com>. This second database has records dating from 1651-1901 with thousands of Bauer, Baur, etc. names. The marriage records online tonight total 9,452 for a total of nearly 20,000 individuals. There are NO Bower or Bowers spellings. I should also mention here that those of you with the BOWERS spelling, and of German extraction, should check BOTH databases for BAUEREN and BAUREN. I have broken the marriage database down into 22 files to keep the size down but they are still rather large. Please expect a wait for each selected file to load, depending on your modem. As with the Ontario death records, you'll find the data base in the vital records section (in the main hallway). Click on the Marriage Records link there. This time I'm thinking ahead... :) ...I have the column definitions on the marriage records index page already. I still have two more databases for Germany to complete - * medieval births (1535-1650) * medieval marriages (1651-1901) I will _try_ to get them online tonight. If I can't, please don't look for them until possibly Wednesday. Tomorrow morning I begin the GEDCOM update. If you haven't submitted your GEDCOM and wanted to, you still have until about 9 a.m. U.S. MST to get it in. Lots of us should be really happy tonight after making a load of finds in the German birth records. How many more will be happy after the Ontario deaths and German marriages, hmmmm....? :) Bruce, Glenn... thank you so much. A lot of cousins are going to break through their lines because of the time you both took to extract records for us. Our appreciation to both of you is indeed heartfelt. I wish you all sweet dreams! Good night! :) Colleen