Hi fellow Crawford Family reseachers, I am Mark Floyd. I have been working on the database at: http://www.cobnet.com/webBase/crawford since Jan. I would welcome anyone who would like to help with this project. I am sorry that some find it hard to use, but would like any help in educating folks on how to use this database. This database is meant as a starting point, to help you locate others who may be looking for this individual or possible web sites, or books, census or any other source for a certain individual. It is not perfect, still is being updated. It does work though. I have not had any problems finding data or researchers. I think what makes it difficult is lack of any help pages. I have been trying to get there, but my schedule has prevented this. I intend to make them as soon as possible, but do not see this happening in my immediate future. If anyone would like to help with this project, they would be gladly welcomed, anylong with comments, suggestions, or ideas. I have been trying to enter information to the database, but have probably near 2000 names still to be entered. I can not keep up with both data entry and perfecting the database at the same time. I would love it, if someone found some time to just enter the information that Wanda has collected for us all. She has given us termindous resources and i can not keep up with her. It does require, that you check to see if the new person is already in the database, before adding them as a new individual, this takes time. The current system, posts individuals in alphabetical order, then by date, however if someone enters a person as ???? for a date and later edits this date, it does not currently reorder the person. I am working on this so please bear with me. The simplest way to work with this database is like so: You should select the type of search you would like to do: such as: List Alphabetically, then type in a letter, name or whatever you wish to list, last you must click the Search button, to get a listing of the names in the database. If you happened to hit the enter key, instead of clicking the Search button, it may come back with Sorry, there are no persons listed by this name. You can also get this error, if you click the Search button, at the same time someone else is adding or editing information to the database, simply click your Back button of your browser and try again in a min or two. I apoligize for lack of help, but i am working with this. I hope this to be a useful tool for everyone. It is a work in progress and no information that is entered should be lost in any of the upgrades. I can try to post other help here to the list until i can get something else started if everyone likes this. Hoping to help, Thanks, Mark Floyd