Hi! Here's the surnames from my tree: SCHIEFERSTEIN, BRAUN, GRANDSTAFF, DUTCHER, WRIGHT, DUDDLESON, DeBOLT, BALL, ANDREWS, WHITE, POUNDSTONE, BOUBARN, DIENER, KERN, RAINS, PIERCE, SMITH (what fun!), NORTON, KING, BLAIR, BURGESS, RUNYON, KIZER - to mention just a few. Two things I hope to accomplish in the not-too-distant future are to find the ancestors of my GG-Grandmothers, Matilda WRIGHT (wife of Noah GRANDSTAFF), and Elizabeth WHITE (wife of Moses T. BALL). The most exciting thing to happen to me this year was becoming a full-fledged member of Piqua Sept of the Shawnee Nation. While participating in an on-line discussion about one of my family lines, I read a post from a relative in Bluffton wherein he mentioned being a member of the Piqua Shawnee. After contacting him for information, I learned that he had become a member based on the same lineage as mine - so he petitioned the Council for my membership and on March 6, 1999 I was accepted into full membership. Also, thanks to many posts on Rootsweb, I was contacted by someone in Colorado who had found a long-lost great-great uncle (half-brother of my G-Grandfather). While not a direct-line ancestor, nevertheless I was thrilled to finally find Lorenzo DeBolt. Thanks, Rootsweb! I am currently researching the Monmouth Cemetery in an attempt to compile a notebook for the libraries in Adams Co. I'm reading the old newspapers, searching for names of people buried at Monmouth who's tombstones are missing. Where possible I'm compiling a short genealogy of the "inhabitants" of this graveyard. You can read the list of known burials in the Monmouth Cemetery on the Adams Co. Rootsweb page - anyone with further information on any of these people is invited to contact me. I'm not doing this work for profit and do not have any intention of selling this information - this is just something I enjoy doing, and if through my hobby I'm able to help someone else with their research, that's all the payment I want. I currently have information on the following families who have people buried at Monmouth: HOOPER, VAN BUSKIRK, HARKLESS, MURRAY, DUTCHER, ABER and BURR. Yesterday, Dec. 29, 1999, a burial was made at the Monmouth Cemetery - the first in 50 years. Jimmie Glen Harkless was laid to rest at Monmouth, beside his numerous ancestors buried there. The last burial previous to Jimmie's was that of Sadie KRICK, buried there in 1949. I'm still willing to do local research and look-up - so feel free to contact me. Will also do more extensive research for a small fee. Nola Rains