For those of you with the possibility of German connections in your study, http://www.ortsfamilienbuecher.de/ is a virtual goldmine. It has a collection of of 'Local Heritage Books' put together by transcribers (much like some Guild members transcribe parishes for a local society) for a huge number of German localities and then published online. First you search for the place name and then choose the surname - what you get are, effectively, nested Family Group sheets that have been assembled from the local church and civil records. Families can be followed for hundreds of years. Marie (GOONS 5318) Bringing the world together one surname at a time. 'A Pepler Name' http://pepler.tribalpages.com 'Hedgerow - the Ancestors' http://cranberry.tribalpages.com Pepler DNA Study http://www.familytreedna.com/public/pepler-ow/ 'Scroops, Scropes and Scroopes' http://dentonlk.tribalpages.com