Q: What are you planning to do with all these "gifts"? A: That's easy! Just like at your inlife-home after you've had Christmas, the gifts will be put away in _our_ home ~ the Howell Research Room. They'll be there for everyone in the world to see and hopefully, connect to you through. Yes, you'll still be given credit for your work and a email hyperlink ~ just like what's at the HRR now. I take absolutely nothing from you. Q: You want us to send these "presents" to the list, or what? A: No, send them directly to me at <[email protected]>. That way, only you and I will know what you're giving the family ~ until Christmas morning US MST, that is. :) Q: How many gifts do you want from us? A: Just one is all you need to send me if you'd like to participate. Q: Can we contribute more than one? A: You sure can! How "Christmas-ey" do you feel? :) You can give the family as many presents as you'd like. Q: You're already so busy! Why are you doing this? A: That's EASY!... it's because you're all WORTH IT! :) Q: I only just started doing research. I don't have much but I want to do something... A: Well, do you have pictures of your early ancestors? Do you have vital certificates from them (birth, death, marriage, military, etc.)? You can certainly use those. The idea here is to keep in mind what you have isn't necessarily what _I_ have or what "cousin Howell" has. We may all shop at the same store, but we're all likely to select different gifts. If duplicate gifts should happen to come in, the cousin sending the gift in first gets the credit. You all just have NO idea how excited you're gonna get, but I do! heh heh heh You're all going to have such a fun Christmas season and I'm awfully excited to bring this to each of you ~ I really am. :) If you still have questions, please ask. I'll do another Christmas Q&A if I need to. Colleen

Colleen, I must have blinked!! What are our "gifts" suppose to be? Sarah