I've done the same thing, Pat. After not using this site for a while, I went back to it yesterday, and found info that I guess I had not searched for before. It gave me a clue on some relatives who lived in Illinois - away from Chicago. Had I done the new search sooner, I could have saved a car trip to Peoria. Oh well! Maureen N In a message dated 1/9/2010 6:48:57 P.M. Central Standard Time, nymets22@gmail.com writes: Thanks Maureen, for reminding me about this site. Often when I hear about a site, I spend hours, maybe days, searching on it, using my surnames with their many spellings, then forget about the site. It has been a couple of years since I searched the NARA site, the info from books I first looked at in the New York City Public Library. Since those days, I have gathered more information on my family and will now go back to the NARA site and search some more. Never know what I'll find.