"Peer Workshopping" is a mandate in my college compositions classes I teach. Several days before a paper is due, my students form groups of four or five and exchange drafts of their papers. Then they write comments on the papers: what works? what doesn't work? what's missing? what's great and I shouldn't change it? etc. etc. Then the readers return the papers to the writer, and the writer makes revisions based upon the readers' comments. Well, that is somewhat difficult to do on the web; hence, my "Twigs of Inman and Spence" website. I've already changed my mind: I'm not going to wait a full year in order to combine all four volumes into a book. I simply have too much material (and a lot of it wasn't put on the website due to space limitations). So after volume I is pulled from the site and is replaced by volume II, I'm going to go ahead and prepare Vol I as a book. The title will be the same as the website article: "When Spence Met Spencer: the story of Elisha Spence (1776-1835) and Susannah Spence (1785-1810)". I want to expand those sub titles into separate chapters--and I'm already finding new things to add to it. I was in a quandry as to what I should do with all that South Carolina South Carolina material I collected (mind you--one Will shot me off that course and put me in the right direction--VA), but I think I'm going to do a separate book on the South Carolina Spencers since I've acquired so much material about them and I hate to let it all go to waste. That will be the subject of Vol. V, perhaps--unless another line captures my interest between now and then. Anyway, the website is working and I've already received a lot of response. One person suggested my linking names with names on the Table of Contents page. I may try that. If a Jones is looking for Joneses and has to read the whole thing trying to find the family or families--well, it becomes a drawn-out process. Anyway, keep your comments coming. I'm open to suggestions. Dr. Barbara Inman Beall bibeall@email.msn.com http://twigs-of-inman-spence.rootsweb.com/