I was chatting in IRC with some of the Rootsweb staff, and found out about an unlinked search engine, which searches all of the USGenWeb archives for the entire US. Naturally, this is only valuable for rare surnames or well put-together queries, but CAHOON/CALHOON/CALHOUN/COLQUHOUN is pretty easy! http://searches.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/fullusaindex.html Calhoun yields 6508 hits, Calhoon 557, Cahoon 458, Colquhoun 48, so the state-separated engine would probably be better: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ussearch.htm Have fun! Valorie