At 09:53 PM 11/30/1999 -0500, Doug Hall wrote: >Well, I got quite a few positive responses to my suggestion of a >collaborative project to update Gilbert Cope's 1871 "Genealogy of the Dutton >Family of Pennsylvania". > >If this kind of project is going to succeed, it will have to proceed with >some shared expectations and common understandings. It will also need to >have a core of 5-6 committed participants who agree to help shape the >project and do much of the grunt work involved. [snip remainder] Hi, Doug: I think your project is an admirable one. I descend from Massachusetts John (provably from his purported son Thomas) so I would not be included in "Cope: The Next Generations". I think your time frame is way too optimistic . . . I am an AS/400 programmer (IBM midrange) by trade, and an accomplished proofreader. I own PAF 4.0, Family Origins 7, and Ultimate Family Tree 2.8. If there is some way I might be of assistance, just ask. By the time you get rolling, this Y2K madness will either have made online genealogy a moot point or will be a mildly embarassing and fading memory. I'm betting on the latter. If that is the case, I will have a bit more time available <grin>. Darrell Darrell A. Martin formerly of the Dutton District, Springfield, Vermont currently in exile in Addison, Illinois darrellm@sprynet.com