hi everybody! i wanted to chime in w/not only my continued thanks to karen and louise!!!! THANK YOU KAREN & LOUISE!!!! but also w/a huge thank you to everyone else who is working on stuff. my own genealogy would never have developed w/out the help of all of you! & i sincerely appreciate it! i don't know about everyone else but i've found that because of my research, i really do appreciate people so much more, from past to present. i think its because i have to think so much (well that in itself is a wonder, ha ha) about details of people's lives, what they went thru, how they lived, what was important to them etc. etc. and that i'm linked to them. & if you go back far enough we're all linked & i think i've come to appreciate that a lot more. SO, because of all of you volunteers, i'm a better person, how about that!!!! and a special thank you to sharon & the roselawn project, that's true dedication & thank you very much sharon for all of your time & effort! AND a very special thank you, to jesse and edith. i've told my husband & my family that the boxes & piles of paper should be donated to the local library but i've also mentioned the huerfano website & others in the event something happens to me. everyone's research is so vital & important. since computerized genealogy is really fairly new it's people like edith & karen & louise & all of you that have such valuable info. some of which may not exist anymore. fires, floods, etc. etc. have destroyed so many records (everyone collectively sigh over the 1890 census loss) so individual reserachers works may contain unbelievable goodies & important facts.... SO THANK YOU JESSE!!!! and a wink & thank you straight upwards, to edith, whom i'm sure is now finding out all the secrets she couldn't here on terra firma! my sincere thanks to all of you wonderful volunteers! taylor