PLEASE try to read all of this ,( it may help you get to sleep). Further to my preliminary suggestion regarding having an image map showing the locations of subscribers to this Chase/Chace group. Having now completed my main research on my Hume family I feel I now have the time to accomplish this task which I first syuggested some years ago. Firstly it would be necessary to have an indication of the amount of people interested in giving their basic details. This need be no more than an email address and the State they lived in. To this could be added, if the donor so decides further information such as town or city,( I would hesitate to include a full address). Also that person's research line, who they were looking for and also if they were willing to help others research,( such as supplying information as to the best method of finding ancestors in their State or area) and also any other information they think relavant The basic idea would be to show image maps of the various countries in which CHASE/CHACE people are located. Basically by a mile the largest proportion of subscribers to this list live in the USA and in this case there would be a map of the US showing the various States and the enquirer woukd click on the State they were interested in. This would take them to an enlarged map of that State and by running their mouse pointer over the area they were interested there would be an indication as to whether there was any CHASE/CHACE researcher in that place. I have done some image mapping that would cover the technical side so although anything but expert I am sure I could manage the job and doubtless there are now people on this list ,( Are you still with us Matt Chase?) who could assist. Now I am not too sure how many subscribers there are to the list but the last I heard it was in the hundreds. For this to be worth doing I feel it would be necessary for , at least 80 people to be interested and cannot see why ANY member of the Group could see anything but benefit from this. Having learnt the hard way I must say that ,at this time, and purely if those participating agree it would be my interntion to distribute these maps only to those who took part..Rest assured it will cost them nothing except a little time. I appreciate that there are some who just monitor the list and never write or contribute and I also acknowledge that some may feel they must learn more before participating and to those I would say here is a way to have your rwesearch interests available and possibly to help others with theirs. As Virginia Reeder,( you are still my heroine, Ginger !), said about searching for William's roots " If we all work at this I am sure we can solve the mystery" Well it is up to you ALL, Keith Hume