Good idea Ronda I have room and am willing to host it. See sample: www.easywell.co.uk/chat Dave Hedges Hi List, I have been watching this list and the Tetbury list for a few weeks now while contemplating a way to get ahead of confusion with all of these data crossovers in these linking families of ours and I'm looking for responses to an idea that any one of us with a website can carry out. Do you think it would be easier to sort out some of these interconnected families if those working on them could meet in a real time chat room connected to one of our sites? I know parachat has a nice, simple and free interface available as an example. The website owner could post a schedule of times for various surname discussions and we could sort of meet "round-table" to throw ideas back and forth, discuss data conflicts, etc. i.e. WATTS / GINGELL might meet at Time A WATTS / LONG at Time B, etc. Same for STINCHCOMBE, WARN, FRANCOMBE, WITCHELL, FRY etc etc What do you think and ... if there is a positive response, does anyone volunteer to host it? Ronda WICKS