Felicia and List, Well, for one, I am EXTREMELY interested in this discussion! Having been interested in genealogy for only three and a half years, there is a great deal I must learn. And a great part of that can't be learned from some book written by some "expert." I have closely followed this discussion and have learned quite a bit about the deductive reasoning that can (should?) be done to follow the different threads among all the Johns, James, Josephs and Williams this Hunt line seems to have. My two cents worth, M. Dean Hunt ps: If I have offended anyone, flame me personally at <mdeanhunt@aol.com> not the List!