Deborah, Thank you for the kind words, and I hope your trip to Italy is wonderful, and fruitful. There is a misunderstanding as to my Nationality, however. I am plain old American, Southern born (we say "By the Grace of God"), but AMERICAN, in Capital letters! I have mostly, English lines, myself, with a sprinkling of German and French, that I am sure of. My husband is the Italian, and I am the only one in the family who cares where they came from, enough to do research anyway. I have been married to him for 44 yrs abt, and you can absorb a lot of Italian culture in that time. Ha! Plus I have done my, and others, families for 30+ years. Research is in my blood, whatever it is. I love it. Take care, and make that cross stitch nice. Wish I could do that! Carleen Carnivale