HI Everyone, it's time for another Icebreaker... what are the locations you are searching in for your ancestors and what mailing lists, tools, URL's are you using to do that research? I'm searching in Maryland: I'm on the MDCAROLI-L for Caroline County, MD and the MDGEN-L which is a list for all of Maryland. I would advise anyone to use USGENWEB to find their perspective areas and join those lists if you haven't already, also check out the USGENWEB sites for your areas, they have some very valuable information on them. The address is: http://www.usgenweb.org/ I'm also searching in England and am on YORKSGEN-L for Yorkshire, and the LANCS-L for Lancashire. I also have used the Pudsey message board (which is a message board for people in the area of Pudsey - a suburb of Leeds), and the YorksWeb sites as well. I also use multimap.com's Find: where I can find any city/town in the UK at: http://uk5.multimap.com/map/places.cgi I'm also on several Surname lists through RootsWeb and collaboration lists through the LDS site. You should know how to find those RootsWeb sites (if not, email me) and to get to the collaboration sites at LDS go to: www.familysearch.org/ and click on the "Collaborate With Others" button which will take you to all the collaboration mailing lists created so far. Remember to also check out Query boards for all your areas at: GenConnect - http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/index.html (don't forget to search states as well as names) and also at Genforum - http://www.genforum.com (again, search states/counties as well as names). Good Luck, and what have you done to try to pinpoint your relatives in the areas where they were known to live? Betsy Hale Listowner - KISSINGCOUSINS-L