Dear Newbie, Glad to have you along! However, perhaps you might find you get more assistance if you were to put the name, year (even approx), and area of the person or persons you are trying to research in your subject heading. Many of us are subscribed to numerous lists and we use the subject headings to simply delete many of the hundred or more messages we get every day from rootsweb.com lists. People will know if you are possibly among the folks that they can make a connection with if you used a better subject heading. Has anyone told you yet about the websites of Tom Cloud and Ken Cloud? They both operate as sort of clearing houses for Cloud family names. There are differences in their pages so it is definitely worthwhile to go to both. Neither Tom nor Ken vouches for any of the folks in their huge ged.coms except for the people that they themselves have researched and proved (or nearly proved through secondary sources and good reasoning). I, however, found some incorrect information on Ken's site that I could put together with some family oral history and I was able to sort out the booboo and break down a very old brick wall! It is well worth checking out any information in both sites. It could be really good information! And, if it is somewhat flawed, it may give you just enough information to find your family and to get to the documents that show they are yours! Ken's website address is called Kennyc's Cloud Family Page. Get into the database by going to: _http://www.cloudweb.org/_ (http://www.cloudweb.org/) Tom's website is called My Kindred.com. Get into his database to see if you can find matches at: _http://mykindred.com/sitemap.htm_ (http://mykindred.com/sitemap.htm) Good luck with your research! Karen Carter Leander, TX