Hi family, Well, I can't present all the keys to you yet, but I CAN give you the one to our front door! Here is the prime 'key' you'll be using: http://howellresearch.com Looks grand, huh? lol Two other keys, the .net and .org extensions won't come online for another 24-48 hours. You might bang into Candi Beard Nation and I. We're hung up on a link that's giving us both headaches, so have been working to unsnag the problem. All pages should load, but if one doesn't it's because you've run into us. :) Specifically, the GENUKI link is the bugger. Candi gets hung up outside our home and can't hit the back button to return. hmmm.... But, we've got to open because I've already shut down GeoCities. As of today I've received donations totally just half the $280 outlay so far. To those cousins I say, "thank you so much." I'll keep an eye on my mailbox and update you as we go along. Family, your support is so appreciated. With this combined effort from everyone, this domain truly will be *OUR* home. For those of you who want/need my address, it follows: Colleen Pustola P.O. Box 13154 Fort Carson, CO 80913 The two new areas I told you about earlier ~ you'll one one on the Family Histories pages, the Ancestral Wall; the second is on the Vital Records ~ the Vital Records Certificates Project. Also, I opened up the 'Deeds' section on the Paper Trail page. All the Christmas gifts are stored away with exception of one cousin's; she knows who she is. That cousin's gift will go online right after I receive her update. What you see online today, is not what we'll be closing the year out with. Oh, the Research Room will be there all right, but it will become part of the Howell Research CENTER. The key you're using tonight will be changed in a month or two, when I'll get us ... well... just know that sometime in the next several months you'll be reaching the Room by using a /room extension as opposed to what you're doing now. For now, I simply got us back up and online ... and AWAY from GeoCities so we can stop getting shut down! :) Yes, the guestbook and forum are back online and ready. Yes, the search engine works. I think that's everything... except... You know cousins, it takes a great deal of effort to get a site online. As hard as I try to keep the errors out, sometimes I'm so in the middle of things that I can't see what's in front of my face! That happens to all of us, I know. But it's times like this when a team effort will produce a spectacular site that will have all of cyberspace talking! I want to give supreme thanks to Candi Beard Nation for going through our home and checking every link, making sure our home is perfect before bringing it back online to our surfing public. She found several tiny errors that return broken pages (I just HATE broken links and graphics!). Candi covered my back and in so doing, covered ALL our backs, making us look good before the Web. Thank you so much, Candi. And now cousins, I want to ask the same thing of you. Candi and I are just two people. It takes a team effort to create a site worthy of being called "excellent." Once you're back in our home, please check your own individual pages. Make sure your links work and your email hyperlink bring up email forms. Should you see anything amiss, PLEASE!... bring it to my attention immediately! I am not one of those people who say, "oh, I don't make mistakes." Au contraire! I make LOTS of mistakes! And I don't want to be the cause of us appearing to the world with peanut butter and jelly on our face. So, if you find a broken link, graphic, a typo, or some other not-so-rewarding thing, don't be afraid to tell me, okay? After all, this is OUR home. If I look bad, so do you. And with that, I say to all of you ... "WELCOME HOME!" :) Colleen