In a message dated 7/2/98 6:24:25 PM Central Daylight Time, pammijo@hotmail.com writes: << GenTips-L@rootsweb.com >> There is a professional genealogist that says, "if you've run into an insurmountable brick wall, it may be because you have something about them wrong." (Sorry, I don't remember the name of the person that said it immediately.) She went on to suggest that one backtrack and look at all the information again to see if there might not be a major misspell, or something that is leading us astray. (and we all know that spelling isn't cast in granite in the early days anyway.) There's always letting the line lay dormant for awhile and work on something else. Sometimes coming back later with a fresh perspective brings more information and allows more records in an area to be discovered. Karen