If you can take a GEDCOM,. I'd be delighted to send you everything I have in my AKINS file. O/w, you'll have to wait a bit until I can print out Family Group Sheets and mail them to you. I'd love to have whatever you have on your branch of the Akins tree. And yes, they seems to add and drop the "i" depending on who was spelling it...and did the same with the "s" at the end! (Do you suppose they did it on purpose to confuse us?) Jerri ****************************************************************** Jerri Eoff Sudderth 1611 E. River Pkwy. Minneapolis, MN 55414 (612)332-3796