I love my IRL-Galway Digest....gives me courage and insight and research, and I always get a truly helpful answer to my questions! Now for another question: I use Brother's Keeper to track the histories that I've discovered. Recently I discovered MyTrees.com, and they offer some free stuff, and then some stuff that you can get for free by performing certain tasks, and then full access to searching if you are willing to upload your family history onto their site (persons still living would be shielded in terms of personal information). It has some advantages, some disadvantages, and I wonder if anyone on this newsgroup has used this, successfully or not, or has feedback for me. The public access issue (to my ancestors) has me concerned but not antsy. Thank you. Barbara