To the people that says it is foolish to search on the internet just aren't looking in the right places or waiting long enough. I started 2 years ago with some information on my mothers family from an aunt that a cousin started back in 1971. it had about 4 generations in it. in the papers from him it stated that he would write a book and give it to the library in Findlay, OH. I visited the library and no book by him. Now he had died in the 1970's. but there was two books on the Wilsons so I looked thru them and lo and behold it was from another cousin on my family. He was alive and living in Spain. I contacted him and got the Wilson back to the 1745 and many branch family's. On another branch I found on FTM cd and the submitter was alive and I contacted them on the web and Got some more on my fathers mother side back to 1839 and many more names. On my Fathers side all I knew was his father and his father but had the wrong name. thru more mailing list I met several more cousins and also thru LDS I found a cousin that submitted another branch I wrote to him by snail mail and got a lot more. Now I have a family tree of 7100 people and am putting in a gedcom that another cousin had and still have a couple hundred names to go. Just wait and read the mailing list and check every possible clue it helps Earl