Dan, I'm new to this mailing list, and I am not one to complain, but if I may make a small suggestion: I imagine that there are many people who are in my similar situation, i.e. very busy and with not enough time to do everything we'd like to do. I have hundreds of e-mail messages from various mailing lists sitting on my hard drive that I have yet to read. When I see a message like: >Suggested reading ! >http://www.rosecity.net/ >Dan Matney .... 99 times out of a hundred my finger will go automatically to the DEL key. I realize that your subject line tipped us off that there is some Cherokee information to be found at the web site, but that's all. Now you may take this suggestion and can it without so much as a second thought, but I think if I were going to recommend to others a web site to visit, that I'd at least try to give them some idea of what they may expect to find there. Since this is my first post to the Broadwater list -- let me just say that I am a descendant of John Broadwater (1788-1859) & Winnie Kilgore (1796-1873), both of Russell/Scott Co. VA (They lived in a log house near Copper Creek, not far from Nickelsville). John, born in Botetourt (now Roanoke) Co., VA, was the son of Charles Broadwater and Nancy ___?___. Looking for Charles' parents and Nancy's name/family. (John's birthplace only about 5 or 6 miles from my home.) Robert Beverly (hoping not to offend)