In a message dated 7/8/00 6:14:37 PM !!!First Boot!!!, [email protected] writes: Another idea, has anyone heard of the local people interested in genealogy offering to do lookups in their church records. It would be a way of returning to others something that someone has already done for us. A service project . Susanne > >would be nice if all parishes were online and I could just e-mail the priest > > but then the poor priests wouldn't have time to do any new baptisms & > marriages & funerals, toooo busy looking up the old ones for all of us! We > could offer to develop a genalogy course for seminary students.... > > Jean > researching Hines in Elgin, 1860's