Hello, listers -- Here are two genealogy search engines you might not know about. I will be adding them in the next day or so to the Search Engines link on our list website (in the Beyond the Basics section). Both sites are free to anyone and are well worth a visit. You might find some connections there to surnames you are researching. And it's a good idea to put at least some of your own genealogy on such sites so they can be found by others. Just how much you submit is up to you. http://www.gencircles.com/ -- this is the GenCircles website where you can search through a database of surnames which have been submitted by others (said to be over 15 million) and you can contact those submitters if you want to. You can also contribute your own genealogy to the site via GEDCOM files. This site includes a Global Tree, Clubs (members can share or chat with each other) and also a Matching feature. http://www.gendex.com/-- this is the GENDEX WWW Genealogical Index which contains " hundreds of World Wide Web databases containing genealogical data for over twelve million individuals, and gives you the ability to locate and view data of interest to you on any of these databases, without having to go and visit each of the databases separately." You can search through the surname index and a database index. If anyone does find a family connection through these sites, I hope they will share this information with the list. Andrea