Hi: I mentioned a few weeks back that google does not find mail list messages but does search the message boards. Taint' so. It did find a query of mine on a CA county message board but that is about all. I had ASSUMED that since my message to a county message board was found - it meant that all messages boards are searched by google.com I did find my messages to various county query boards so be sure and send your info to them. I also sometimes get too busy to read my Ancestry newsletter so I was surprised to find the Quick Tip below that I had sent in. Regards Nan 71532.734@compuserve.com ==================================== Ancestry Quick Tip 7/11/2003 - Archive --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Clues in Receipts In the July 7 ADN, Carol Houghton reminded us to look for pertinent information in our elders' greeting cards. (www.ancestry.com/rd/prodredir.asp?sourceid=831&key=A732802 ) I have also been able to determine when my parents went on trips and where they went by looking through the tissue copies of their old credit card bills. My sister and I were going to dump them all when I spotted some receipts from Kenya and Calcutta and realized they could tell us more than we thought. Just by thumbing through some of the bills, we were able to pinpoint when they traveled and where they traveled. I have made a timeline for them from this information. I plan to print it out for our next family gathering because we are always guessing about when they went and where. Now, there will be no guessing. My mother also took a piece of stationery from each hotel room where they stayed. She kept them in a drawer at home and referred to them whenever discussing their trips. So now we also know where they stayed, not just when. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Thanks to Nan Wolf for today's Quick Tip! If you have a tip you would like to share with researchers, you can send it to: ADNeditor@ancestry.com Quick Tips may be reprinted, with credit to the submitter, in other Ancestry publications, so if you do not want your tip included in a publication other than the Ancestry Daily News and Ancestry Weekly Digest, please state so clearly in your message.