Hello all, The KIRWIN list is one of several mailing lists I maintain. Happily for me it is a small list which means it is essentially trouble free. I have been thinking about the nearly 3 years the list has existed and about what progress I have seen made. I realize that like another small list I maintain, progress has been slow. I have therefore decided to extend to members of the list the same offer I have made to another small list. As many of you know, I maintain a personal website called Climbing the Branches at Rootsweb. Currently it holds only information directly related to my own Kirwin lines. For the millennium, I have decided to try a small shift to aid our collective research. If you want to send me a GedCom or some other form of communication outlining your known, proved Kirwin lines, I will chart your family groups and post them to my website free of charge. See my website http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~jmbhome/1kirwin.html for the format. Here are my rules: 1) I will give you an email link as submitter (if you would like that) or not (as you prefer) 2) I will not post information about any generation that still has living members (so, if all your own parents, aunts and uncles are gone but if the children of your grandparents' siblings are alive, the data does not get posted) 3) I will only post data until it runs out of Kirwins (i.e., until your mainline goes to a daughter who married into another surname) 4) The material must be your own proven data and not anything "grabbed" and/or not proved from the internet. 5) I will not sell the information nor post it anywhere that someone else can sell it. 6) I will do this for free for the benefit of all descendants and it will be posted where it can be accessed for free. I will probably ask a couple of you that I have known several years now and trust to be my "backup" in this effort. If for some reason I can no longer maintain the website, I will contact the list and ask someone to come forward and take it over with the same understandings. I will do this as I can, time permitting. If we gather enough information, I will ask the list to consider setting up a Kirwin/an Family Association and post everything there. If you have web skills, and are willing to pitch in, let me know. If you have reason to think this is a lousy idea, please email me off the list. If you like the idea and want to participate, note I only include vital data on my charts, so you don't need to include notes. etc., so you can skip sending it. I am taking a deeeeep breath and hitting the send key! Jana Black