For several years I've been trying to help genealogists as part of our work on church history and preservation of records. Have studied a great deal the life of Daniel Parker, who was a member of the Lamott church, an early state senator, etc. We have the records of some early Baptist churches in the Crawford co., area. Names of members have been entered into a database; we've been working on this since about 1986, and now have 20,000 names for Illinois, and another 10,000 for other midwestern states. I have no family connections, but as a church historian I would be grateful to learn of sources of information about early Fort Palestine. Best wishes to all, for Christmas and the New Year! Robert Webb Carthage ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.