Hi to all my dear cousins, DUTTONs, DUNTONs & Zachariah DUTTONs (proved and potential). The bad news is that I have been diagnosed with MDS, a rare but fatal disorder of the bone marrow. There is no cure and no real treatment. In the short time since the diagnoses the disease has already progressed to full blown Leukemia. I start on chemo Monday but the outlook is not good. SO BE IT! Other than the obvious, my main problem is that I have no family member or close personal friend interested in genealogy or DUTTON Heritage. To try to assure that all the work that I have put into this project is not lost and wasted I have uploaded my entire master list of 249,430 connected individuals to the RootsWeb's WorldConnect Program. Of those 249,430 individuals, 34,466 are blood relatives. This file can be found at: http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=dickdutton Feel free to use this data in any responsible manner to try to connect all our cousins worldwide. The data is not perfect. The only data I can personally guarantee is my direct line from me to Thomas Sr. (abt 1619/1622-1687). Most of the rest is a compilation of data researched and documented by a large number of very fine genealogists. The areas of known and obvious problems are in the medieval times from data derived from the LDS Ancestral File - so Beware! Carole Dutton Malisiak probably has a better handle on this area of our distant heritage than anyone else I know. Now, for those of you who have been long standing supporters and contributors to my efforts (you know who you are) I have the following offer - a personal gedcom of my master file. Zipped the gedcom is 10,250 K. If you would like a copy, send the request directly to me at: rad@emcst.com Requests posted to the List will be ignored. If you use one of the cheap ISP's (such as Juno) that refuses to accept attachments, don't bother to ask. We'll just have to see what happens the first time I try to send an attachment that size to an AOL address. Also you need to be sure your genealogy program is capable of importing a 249,430 gedcom. I've heard bad things along these lines about Family Tree Maker for Windows. Requests will be filled as health and time permit. Happy Hunting Gang, Dick Dutton