Hi Cris, Yes, Atwood CA is a small place but even so there IS an LDS center quite near you: Family History Centers in Merced, California, United States Merced California 1080 E Yosemite Ave Merced, Merced, California, United States Phone: 209-722-1307 Hours: T-Th 10am-4pm, W, Th 7pm-9pm It's about 11.4 miles (about 19 mins away) from the center of Atwood CA to this LDS Family History Center Your center is closer than mine! (Unless I'm wrong about you living in Atwater??????) Try em...you'll like em! (You won't be 'spinning your wheels'!) NOTE: to anyone who thinks they live in a place too small to have an LDS Family History Site...often not TRUE...there are ususally sites at almost every LDS church and they are practically EVERYWHERE. To find one near you and take advantage of all the wonderful ORIGINAL resources they offer go to http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHC/library_fhc_find.asp and look your local LDS FHC up! Can't recommend them highly enough! -------------- Original message from crazyangel25@webtv.net: -------------- Hi Carla I live in a small country town, dont have family history center here. Is that what this footnotes.com was? If so I wont bother too much with it, no since "spinning my wheels" since we dont have a center here. My ancestors were came to Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska, from Ireland none in Texas. Thank you Cris