Dear John Anderton Thanks for the tip about Mark D. Herber's Ancestral Trails, a copy of an older edition which I have. Yes, I have lots of reservations about using the internet as the SOLE source of information, but with failing eyesight, it helps not to have to squint all the time at microfilm! (If only the microfilm readers had search engines!!!). With the help of different County Record Offices personnel in England (when I was younger, had a steady source of income, etc) I have been able to find a good deal of my English grandmother's lineage. I have found the East Suffolk RO and the Bedfordshire ROs have been most helpful. As you can guess, my grandmother's family members were migratory. I have recently located with the help of the computer search engine some later family members in censuses in what are now the suburbs of London (Camberwell and Peckham, etc.) It also helped that until the last decade I was in contact with my grandmother's nieces who lived in Kent and Oxfordshire, but now they are deceased. Because of their personal history (left orphans at a tender age), they could not contribute a great deal to our mutual earlier family history, but they did show me places where their parents had lived, etc. Because it seems that Kent had two record offices, research becomes more difficult. In Southern California, we have an active British Family History Society, and in the past, when our treasury was a little fuller, we were able to import speakers from UK such as Colin Chapman and Michael Gandy and other experts from the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. I have a goodly number of booklets from the Federation of Family History Societies and from Society of Genealogists. Thanks again for your tip. E.W.Wallace