This just came in on another of my lists... and I'm sharing with you... R Seems my messages are not coming through. One last try... Perhaps many of you are aware of this web site, but I discovered it quite by accident yesterday. The site is called Internet Archives and is available at: <http://www.archive.org/details/texts> This will lead you to over 1,000,000 books that are on line in their entirety. After getting to this site, click on American Libraries, Canadian Libraries etc. I pulled up Allen County Public Library under American Libraries and found nearly five thousand genealogical books from their collection. If you know the title it can be found alphabetically. I have not found a way to search a surname before pulling up the book. But it is not difficult to scan down the texts, click on the title and then the blinking book. Choose titles from an area where your ancestors are from and then search the book for the name. Sounds cumbersome, it is not. If you have a high speed connection it goes very fast. It is possible to print just the pages you want by downloading to a PDF format. Just follow the clues. Lyn Hargreave