Dearest HARRISHUNTERS, I thank you for the many kind words you have sent. I appreciate them and find it encouraging that I am perhaps helping others. Over the past three months I have had several people contact me and tell me that the only resource they have access to is the internet. Several mentiond restrictions such as age, health, where they live, and the fact that there are no genealogical libraries within several hundred miles of where they live. If I can help one of them, then my meager efforts have been worth it. I have a superb genealogical library here in Evansville. They have many resources (as you can tell by my emails) and are most helpful in my quest for greater Harris knowledge. I have researched mostly Southern Harris' because that is where my line(s) run. My direct line, the best I can tell, starts with Robert Harris of Ware Creek, York County, Virginia.(The one who for so many years was given the "ficticious" wife called Mary Claiborne Rice) They then went into Granville County, North Carolina, to Pendleton Dist., S.C., then into Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi. Therefore it is only natural that I predominantly focus on Southern Harris'. Recently, however, I have found that some of my line perhaps came out of Kentucky and Tennessee into Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, and Iowa. In the "near" future, you will see postings by me from these areas. I would like to encourage some of you with Northern Harris roots to start posting your northern Harris family information on the HH website. I am curious as to how the Pennsylvania Harris line fits in the overall Harris line. Sometimes we get bogged down in our particular line and fail to see the overall picture. The more we post for posterity the more we will be able to help each other sort out this wonderful mess called the Harris Family, and help the many "newbies" who come on board after us. Have you also considered what will happen to your research after you have passed on? Several years ago, a group of HH'ers got together and worked on the connection between England and several Southern lines. Perhaps this could be done with Pennsylvania and some of the Northern Lines. Or, perhaps several small groups could work together on specific states. There is much more that I could say. But I must get off my soapbox and get back to work. Thank you for your support of HH and the other HH sites. The more we learn, the easier it will be to sort out our lines. Ira L. Harris III (male) Evansville, Indiana