Hi Donna and all, This influx of absolutely wonderful information is coming from Barbara <Caffecupz@aol.com> of the BAUER-L, a cousin who is sending all this in on her own. She knows the list of variant spellings we research (from the Homestead's list), and knows that there are 4 teams comprising the 'B' Consortium. As with any volunteer/donated material though, only she can determine the spellings she chooses to work with. I will, however, forward your message to her and let her know that you hope to see some Bowers data, too. If, however, she still chooses to extract only the three spellings as before, someone might want to begin working on the Bowers spelling and perhaps several others?.... I wish you all a SUPER Saturday! :) Colleen Donna Hinson wrote: > > Colleen, > I have noticed that the data being posted from Ancestry.com includes > Bauer, sometimes Baur, and Bower. I don't think the Bower searches are > picking up Bowers with the "s". I think on some databases, inputting > Bowers will pick up Bower as well, unless you ask for an exact match, > but inputting Bower normally will not get Bowers. Not sure how it works > on Ancestry though. We appreciate all this work but thought I'd let you > know one group is being missed. > Donna

Colleen, Please thank Barbara for her help and for adding the Bowers variant. I believe the Bower and variant lists are by far the best lists on Rootsweb. I have never seen a soul with a bad word to anyone and everyone tries to always be helpful. And, Colleen, you also do so much to hold us all together as a "family" and inspire us to keep looking for our long lost ancestors. Thanks!!! Donna