Hello everyone! Our front page has now had over 1600 hits, 1200 since we opened the site to the public in December! Several people have submitted material for "casual" pages and _The Guide to Irish Research_ continues to receive constant small updates as well as major ones with each class! Tell your friends! And while you're at it, tell folks about the surname pages for Irish names, too! Do we have YOUR names? :) http://www.geocities.com/~fiannag/ when's the last time YOU looked it over? It IS yours, you know! I'm just the coding secretary for the bunch :) For all those who are planning to get to/back to VU courses, the enrollments for the next one start March 9, 1998 on the VU site ( http://www.vu.org ). Remember there is a small fee now ($10 to take any courses and $5 per course (US) making it $15 to take the genealogy course and an additional $5.00 for each other course you take during the same term....) The next course will be starting April 12, 1998. This present course was called PRACTICAL INTERNET GENEALOGY and was predominantly review for those of us who have taken courses there before. The next course, INTERMEDIATE Practical Internet Genealogy will also be pretty easy for us. And then will come ADVANCED Pratical Internet Genealogy. (That IS "pig, ipig, and apig!" ;) lots of jokes on that, hehehe.) True to her word, Marthe is finding and including some added material in each course and making it interesting for all, and of course we ARE working on the Guide in each one. PLEASE, If you're even half-way planning to take the next VU course, go to http://www.geocities.com/~fiannag/signup.html and sign up with Fianna NOW! so we can get organized BEFORE the term starts and get down to work a lot sooner! (Including helping newbies with IRC earlier on :) . Then, whether you actually sign up at VU or not, we'll be hoping to see you and share with you more! :) We've had some "fellow travelers" this time, Fianna-folk not taking the course but sharing with the study group, and it has been wonderfully enriching! :) Peace. chirho Anne Boyes boyes@gardener.com http://www.geocities.com/~hoseahouse/genealogy/