Good evening, folks, well, to answer my own question, there are lots of NEWS in the ships department. Our transcribers are 'churning' out lots of passengerlists and they and the proofreaders deserve a big 'THANK YOU' !! They all work quietly in the background for the benefit of all of us. However, there are still 'zillions' of lists not transcribed yet and we are constantly looking for more volunteers. To talk about me, I try to update our databases and bring them up to the highest technical standards constantly. The latest changes with our ships database http://www.saxonyroots.com/ships With now well over 100,000 names in our database it can be quite a bit time-consuming to search through all the records, but now you can now narrow down your search with entering any amount of letters into the 'First Name' box... Very often, you do not know the exact spelling of the Last Name. But now you have the option to search for similar sounding names with clicking on the 'YES' button... When you start looking for the actual data like: http://www.saxonyroots.com/ships/ships_db.php you usually get quite a few 'hits' and until now you were only able to move forward one page at the time.. but now you can select any page you want to visit on the bottom of the page... And another thing I find very exciting.. our database is now linked to 'google maps' and whenever you 'click' on a placename you will see the actual landscape and in zooming in, you can go down to the 'street level' and can see even the individual buildings as it looks from space.... amazing... I am still not to happy with the display and all the advertising. It's a minor thing.. anyone having any knowlege with JAVA and able to give me a hand to solve this problem ?? OK.. enough talk for today... Take a look and let me know your opinion and, of course, if you find any 'boo-boos' tell me abot them.. Have a nice evening, Wolf [Zscheile] ******************************************** Visit our homepage with ALL the latest NEWS http://www.saxonyroots.com ******************************************** -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.14.5/534 - Release Date: 11/14/2006