Hi everyone glad to see all these posts coming in and Thank you all again for being a part of this great group. Those of you who are still shy about posting please do so soon. We would like to get to know you too. There is one thing that came to my attention that I would like to put my two cents in on. During our flurish of activity I noticed a post from one of our members to David Morgan. David is the Troup County Coordinator for another source. Their program works on a differnet concept from the Rootsweb program. I think (someone please correct me if I am wrong) is that you register your surname with them and then your query is placed on their website. People can review these queries and then post a query of their own to that person. I have not had much luck with this, but then again the ones I posted are my brick wall lines. David posted a couple of queries telling you about his web site which has some excellent links posted on it and a great site to check out. His posts to our list requested that you answer directly to the link he put at the bottom of the post. When doing so it took you to his web page or to that person (I don't remember). I would like to see answers to post come to the board, so that those of you who may be connected to that line could see the answers and join in. I asked him if he would consider doing this, and he decided to leave the list instead. So if you need to contact him please email him or visit his web site. Second penny. I'm not sure how the Troup County Archives is staffed, but the day I was fortunate to visit, it was a very busy place. Genealogy has become a very popular activity and more people are tracing their roots every day. I am sure Kaye is bombarded with requests and probably gets hundreds a day. So when writing to her please be patient. She does answer your request personaly and her answer to mine was very helpful and also took a month or so to receive. I had to wait threee months to get a birth certificate from the state, but when these answers came I was so excited I forgot about the wait. A possible solution for us could be (just an idea), is that if anyone on our list lives near or in LaGrange, has some extra time might volunteer to do some looks up for the members of our list. Maybe he/she and Kaye could work something out to help us get our answers back faster. Any volunteers? I sure as we grow, Kaye will refer people to the list. Try to plan a trip to the archives sometimes, you will be very impressed at the reference material they have for LaGrange, Georgia and even other states. Be sure to visit their website it is a fun site with lots of interesting things to view. Take a look at some of the pictures, it gives you an insite on some of the history. Ok, that's my two cents on this subject. Remember that the purpose of this group to help each other with problems, discuss good research sources, make connections to our families, meet new people and share ideas or thoughts. We all have the fact that we have a root somewhere in Troup County in common. Hilda