There are two sites you'll want to visit this week. One is the official opening of the Mormon Church files site at http://www.familysearch.org/ It is slow and often down but if you pick the right time you'll be rewarded. I spent about a half an hour there yesterday. Remember, Ancestral File was contributed by people who may or may not have done their research. It is undocumented and should be treated as such -- like World Family Tree or any of the other massive undocumented files. The IGI, on the other hand, is actual information extracted from vital records around the world. The second site is from Ancestry.com and contains message boards organized by surname, by country/state, by topic. http://www.FamilyHistory.com You can post a query on their message boards as well as use other free sections of Ancestry.com including World Family Tree. It looks like a good plan might be to go to the site and register, then set up your 'favorite' message boards for future use. Right now it is pretty calm but I suspect it will get crowded as more folks discover it. Cheryl Rothwell clrothwell@mindspring.com Coordinator, Logan County, ILGenWeb Project http://www.rootsweb.com/~illogan/loindex.htm Logan County mailing list> LOGAN-L-request@rootsweb.com Downing mailing list> DOWNING-L-request@rootsweb.com Harding mailing list> HARDING-L-request@rootsweb.com Downing query board> http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/FamilyAssoc/Downing Lucas query board> http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/FamilyAssoc/Lucas