Last year, Judith Glad came up with a great project for our winter doldrums where we posted our earliest Holmes ancestor with general migration path and dates. I have been working on another project to do with migration queries and would like to do a Holmes project based on Judith's work last year. Judith compiled these summary migration paths and organized the entries by state with the email contact for the submitter. I am working on a web page that will display these migration paths from last year's project, and will allow updates and new entries, so we can maintain a summary database of our list's research interests. I would also like to add some information to that database that helps us make connections. Here are some of my thoughts and I would like to hear from the list if there other things that you would like to see. First, I'll give you a summary of my Holmes family - all dates are "circa": Holmes .. England�. 1850 Lovejoy .. USA.ME..Fort Fairfield 1868 Holmes .. USA.ME.Washington.Eastport 1870 Mahar Lovejoy USA.ME..Fort Fairfield 1886 Holmes .. Canada.NB.Charlotte.Letete 1895 1904 Holmes Mahar Canada.NB.Charlotte.Letete 1903 1910 Crewe Arnett Canada.PEI.Prince.Crapaud 1903 1920 Robinson Lovejoy USA.ME.Washington.Robbinston 1905 1941 Holmes Mahar USA.ME.Washington.Robbinston 1906 1910 Holmes Towers Canada.NB.Charlotte.Letete 1907 1950 Holmes Towers USA.ME� 1907 Holmes Robinson USA.ME.Washington.Robbinston 1910 1928 Diffin .. USA.ME.Washington.Robbinston 1910 McNutt .. USA.ME.Washington.Robbinston 1910 Holmes Roosevelt �Campobello Island 1920 1944 Holmes Roosevelt Canada.NB.Charlotte.St Andrews 1920 1944 Spearin Robbinson USA.ME.Washington.Robbinston 1920 1953 Crewe Arnett USA.NH 1920 1945 Robinson Clark USA.ME.Washington.Robbinston 1926 Crewe Holmes USA.MA.Suffolk.Boston 1928 1945 Holmes Diffin USA.ME.Washington.Robbinston 1933 1974 Varnum Jean USA.MA.Middlesex.Hopkinton 1935 1955 Holmes Dick Canada.NB.Charlotte.St George 1940 Crewe Holmes USA.MA.Middlesex.Hopkinton 1945 1958 Varnum Crewe USA.MA.Middlesex.Hopkinton 1947 1967 McNutt Holmes USA.ME.Washington.Robbinston 1950 Varnum Jean USA.MA.Worcester.Southboro 1955 1967 Crewe Holmes USA.MA.Worcester.Grafton 1958 1961 Crewe .. USA.IN..Indianapolis 1961 1967 Varnum Crewe USA.MA.Worcester.Berlin 1967 1968 Varnum Crewe USA.MA.Worcester.Southboro 1967 1976 Crewe .. USA.MA.Worcester.Worcester 1967 1974 Robinson .. USA.CA..San Francisco 1970 The dates are based both on sources and conjecture: My gggf Irving Holmes is said to have come from England with two brothers to New Brunswick, Canada. Irving's wife Esther died in NB at age 45 in 1895, so I have guessed that Irving was born in England and was about the same age as Esther. I have some hard facts for dates from various sources, but as you all know, you guess at somethings to help you figure out where to look next. So, if we take last year's project results and post a database for updates and extensions, we would be starting from the following format: <earliest ancestor first name> Holmes, <various notes and dates> <various location formats and detail> How much detail would you like to see in such an overview style database? Do you want to know if a date or date range is based on birth, marriage, death, census, christening/baptism, land, church, business/civic, newspaper, genealogy/history pubs, family bible or family recollection? Do you want to know what the related families were in a particular area? Do you want the locations broken down into country.st/province.county.town detail ? Have you found that historic, economic or religious issues have played a major factor in your family's migration patterns? I have constructed a somewhat detailed form that you can look at at http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/7945/FamilyUpdate.htm but think that that is too detailed, so I would like to find a middle ground between that level of detail and my sample summary above. thanks for any help you can provide, Sharon ____________________________________________________________________ Get free e-mail and a permanent address at http://www.amexmail.com/?A=1