I thought I would start out the year with some good research sites covering many different areas but all ones I have recently searched. For BLM land records try http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/ For records from Devon, England try The Devon Records Office which has copies of baptismal, marriage, burial and probate records. Small fee for copies and research, but they are very prompt, very helpful and using a credit card saves all the problems with conversion to Euros. Incidentally, if you need to make a £ sign when doing your transcriptions of wills, hold down your alt key while using the number pad to put in 156. Devon Records are at http://www.devon.gov.uk/dro/homepage.html If you need to preserve old records, etc. there are tips at http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/bytopic/genpub/ URL won't work for me if I put www. Good records for Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, including several census' can be found at http://www.telusplanet.net/public/mtoll/ It has some nice links to other Canadian sites too. Speaking of Canadian sites there is a website where you can search free and if you see someone you are interested in, you can order copies of records for a small fee. Mrs. Simmons is very reliable and very helpful. http://www.virtuel.qc.ca/simmons Her records are primarily for the English in Quebec Province but there are some others on there too. Including some in Vermont. She lives on the border and has a VT address so no international postage and she accepts checks from American banks. Incidentally, postage to Canada is 60 cents an ounce. Also, 60 cents to Mexico. All other foreign countries the postage is 80 cents an ounce. If you order records from them you may need to get international postage coupons for the return postage. In Canada the rate of exchange is in our favor so most Canadians don't charge postage if you pay in US dollars. http://www.nara.gov is the National Archives which has numerous free publications, forms for ordering copies of records and a lot of other good things our tax dollars pays for. Perry Co. Ohio is problem for me but this website is a very good one. http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~tfisher/tefishermain.htm Another URL that does not like www. It includes a couple books that can be searched with you browser and information on adjoining counties too. Doesn't sort out my Crosby's for me but it is filled with interesting information. To search a document with your browser, go to the top of the page where you see edit. Click on edit and look for find on this page or something similar depending on your program. Click on that and a little box comes up. Type in the word or name you are looking for and click find next. Do this again until it has searched the whole document. You can browse any document or web page you see on the internet this way. It also works for census images. Last, but not least, is an interesting Pennsylvania site with copies of information about the PA Revolutionary war soldiers, Mexican War, Spanish American War and WWI medical application cards. http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp Happy hunting! Bette