Hi Richard, Very well said and my feelings exactly. I'm not able to visit distant places to gather my information first hand and other people's leg work and good will has helped me immensely. My objective is to gather as much information on my lines as possible (and I've been able to push most of them back several generations) so that it's there for my descendants should one or more of them care. One of the lines is "certified" if they want to join Mayflower or DAR or whatever--the others are gravy. Dee Watt searching Dickens, Kennedy, Taber (among others)