You are very lucky Michael,to have a surname like OUTLAW. I have been lumbered with WILLIAMS. When I started out in 1981 I did my Mother's line first. She was a WHITE , So I managed to go back several generations in to Gloucestershire, Warwickshire and Northampton.   It is fairly recently,The last ten years that I had a go on the WILLIAMS side. But I'm stuck in Llangadog with too many David WILLIAMS being born between 1792 and 1797. And that is only back to my 3 x great,grandpa. I did,with the help of several "Will's"from N.L.W; to trace back from the 17th;century to a line of the BOWEN family of Courthouse,Gower. This connected to the CRADOCK's of Long Ash Gower,then I connected to the F[F]RANKLI[Y]N family of Parc le Breos Gower. One of my ancestors,A Jenkin FRANKLYN was Under Sheriff of Glamorgan in 1541.His ancestor was The Vicar of Bishopston in 1492. Another ancestor on that line may have been killed at the Battle of Bosworth Field. Another was Davy GAM,Slain on the Battlefield,Knighted by King Henry V after the Battle of Agincourt in 1415. Mentioned in Shakespeare's play  of Henry V. This branch with one of the wives put me on to earlier lines and connected me to the Aristocrats,which then connected to Royalty. Off the top of my head,my last Royal subject was King John. Yes,I agree with you. The fun of the game is in the chase. Cheers Graham. Graham Williams, Glam;FHS# 551. of Canton,Cardiff.