[email protected] wrote: ... I > know that my own line did not take time to write anything down & I have had > to find them the down & dirty way....hitting courthouses, census, voting, & > later the newspapers. My big problem is that even tho I am an excellent > typist...I am computor illiterate & do not know the best way to type my > findings so that others can go to it & benifit on their own searches. <snip> I just want to urge anyone with "excellent typing skills" and a lot of information to put it up on a webpage. It is really simple and easy to just put data out there. The 4 pages I recently posted with the Cowans in Selkirkshire took only a few minutes per page. If you right-click on a page, you can see the 'source', which is the HTML coding and the data. Besides the <head> and <body> tags, these pages only use one other pair of tags, <pre> and </pre>, and a little bit of stuff in the footer, which you wouldn't have to have. They aren't pretty, but they load fast, all browsers can read them, and doing a quick page leaves one more time for research to do another! Typing up the info is the main thing, and then uploading the page. And telling people about it. :-) Valorie http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~valorie/cowan PS: If anybody needs any help getting Cowan information up on the web, I'll be glad to help.