John and others, There are lot of small databases that you would never find in the general fluff. e.g. I found a history of the houses of Nottoway County,Virginia, as an indexed book. One of my husband's ancestors was a Campbell who lived in Nottoway County. This is great, of course, but when I looked at each page in the book there were pictures of the houses and a genealogy of the families who lived in them. Just priceless! In this case, the Campbell's wife died, he had a son in the Legislature who had the law changed so that Dad could marry his deceased wife's sister. Virginia at the time followed Common Law from England. Now, that little gem made my day. Rosemary On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 11:40 AM, John Okerson <[email protected]>wrote: > For databases (read records) that aren't obvious I go directly to the Card >> > Catalogue (last option of the main search command on the top line). I find > using keywords to search those databases gets good results. > > Your tip here Rosemary is VERY useful! Thanks for the instruction! > > John Okerson > Lakeland, TN > > >