In a message dated 11/24/2006 5:01:24 PM Eastern Standard Time, quillpen1@optonline.net writes: www.ask.com looks like a very interesting site. I put an icon on my desktop so I can refer to it. Thanks, Maureen For others using search engines for researching family history and times you might like to see this note from the Binghamton Township Historical Soc. Newsletter Vol.3 #4 The best application is to choose a search engine which INCLUDES a few others as noted in this list. www.google.com www.aol.com www.msn.com www.yahoo.com www.ask.com (Formerly was "AskJeeves") www.altavista.com (good for searching people, ancestors etc for a fee.) www.alltheweb.com (Will search in other languages) www.hotbot.com (searches ask and msn) www.dogpile.com or www.webcrawler.com (Both search Google, Yahoo, msn, and Ask) There are many other search engines, but these seem to be the most popular