Searching for these Virginia/West Virginia surnames from the late 1700's through 1800's: Harr (John b. 1777); Merrifield (Samuel, b. 1720; Richard, b. 1747); Reed (Robert, b. 1802); Carpenter (John, b. Abt 1760); Capt. James Booth (b. 1709); Evan Thomas (b. Abt 1760); Capt. Samuel Stalnaker (b. 1682). I would appreciate any information you may have and would be happy to share my data with you. My e-mail address is GenJan@bewellnet.com Best Wishes! Jan Hornick, Denver (area), Colorado ********************* This information was received from another mail list yesterday: "Huge upgrade for FamilySearch" "From----http://www.desnews.com/dn/print/1,1442,135007623,00.html? Associated Press" "The world's biggest online genealogical collection is about to get bigger. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has added 240 million names to its 640-million name archive. The church maintains the runaway Internet hit 'FamilySearch.'" "The boost is the largest single upgrade since the Web site was launched last May. Site designers vastly underestimated the number of people that would use the Web site, which receives up to 10 million "hits" a day. Web site spokesman Paul Nauta argues those totals make FamilySearch the Internet's hottest service. ...by any measure, the church's site and its more than 300,000 registered users account for one of the Web's most popular stops. Todd Christoffersen, executive director of the LDS Church's Family History Department, said the latest names were gathered primarily from Western Europe, Scandinavia and Mexico and by themselves surpass the size of most other genealogical databases on the Web." "FamilySearch will continue to be offered as a free service, though church officials have hinted that some sort of fee may eventually be charged. In addition to other online archives, like the 35 million-name Ancestral File, FamilySearch plans early next year to index the new Pedigree Resource File, a database of family history records being transmitted or "uploaded" to the site by users." "The pedigree file, already listing more than 5 million names, is projected to grow at the rate of 1.2 million names per month. Family history has been an LDS Church priority since the its earliest days. The church officially began compiling genealogical records in 1984, primarily using the information in LDS temple ordinances. Today, the church maintains records of more than 2 billion people, safeguarding the information on millions of rolls of microfilm stored in granite vaults inside Little Cottonwood Canyon south of Salt Lake City." "FamilySearch can be found at www.familysearch.org on the Internet." ********************