We really do live in exciting times for genealogy as more and more records appear online. Even seven years ago I was pilloried for trying to undertake a complete sizeable one-name study online. I made do and more-or-less succeeded, but given we now have had the internet for 20 years, I was actually puzzled that so few resources were digitised. Now it’s different and there is really no other way. Soon, you will barely need to set foot in a library. Every time I look there is an explosion of new sources. For example, four years ago in order to try to reconstruct the Coads of New Zealand, all we had were newspapers, a CD heritage marriage index, and some listings of cemeteries (we managed). Now – ancestry.com is full of NZ BMD indexes (most of which can be found free) and familysearch has probate originals. Yesterday I discovered cemetery records for Adelaide including a whole lot of people I had never heard of. In Victoria we have pictures, maps and indexed searches of a lot of cemeteries online – http://mapping.fcmp.com.au:1001/Pubmapping/index.aspx. familysearch continues to amaze. Well we knew they have always had the records tucked away in Utah, but three years ago all we had online was the IGI, corrupted by an equal quantity of bad user-sourced records. Now – well we have originals of many of the Cornwall PRs. And an absolute wealth of originals from every US State and South American country, and most European countries. Well I guess it had to happen, the surprising thing is that so much has come at once after 20 years. But it is not over yet. JF