"The Frontier House" series is showing on PBS, where three families are spending several weeks re-enacting life in Montana in 1883. History buffs will appreciate the "Frontier Life" essays on their website: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/frontierhouse/frontierlife/index.html "While completing research for THE FRONTIER HOUSE, we have pieced together diaries, letters, newspaper articles, and official documents to give us a window into the day-to-day lives of settlers who actually lived on the American frontier. Their stories of adventure, endurance, humor, and determination are the basis of this ever-changing series of essays." Interesting reading, even if your ancestors weren't out there. -- Paul Havemann (paul@havemann.com) Havemann Family History: http://www.havemann.com/