Greetings.. I just wanted to share what I discovered today regarding my family research. This week I am home on family sick leave due to an accident that my mother recently had and is on bedrest. Well, what do I do while she is recuperating?? (As I scratch my brain...then it hit me..one day a few weeks ago my mother informed me that she cant remember where she put some very important papers that are necessary for me to have if something happends to her and asked me to check out her 4 draw file cabinet for them.. but..two days after that she found the papers!!! Thank God! However, she still asked me to clean out and check out the file cabint to see if there is anything else that I think I should have..I decided to put it on my "TO DO LIST" for the next time I have a day off .Bingo that was the project for the day... (in between of caring for her..) It took me about 6 hours to go through the file cabinet and I shredded alot of useless papers but found a huge discovery... I found many papers on my grandfather and grandmother! .(marriage ceritificaties / discharge papers and birth certificates and many other types of documents) and even information on my grandparents' mother and father...Even though most of it were written in Italian..its more information I have now than before... I even found documents of my grandfathers other two marriages (after the death of my grandmother...) Some of them are so old that I have to be very careful in handling it... but I think I will have them laminated since most of them are from the early 1900s..especially the ones written in Italian... What a find!! SO if you have any file cabinets or draws to clean out you never know what you might find!!! and dont forget to check your basement and/or attic... Denise Lancto Lfelixthekat@aol.com