My friends - I am dropping by today for two reasons - first to thank all of you who reviewed the PDF test page from Graves County Order Book K. The resulting feedback revealed a high level of satisfaction with the image itself and its clarity.Some good suggestions have been made to try to compress the size of the image, and those will be attempted, although the difficulty lies in trying to maintain the pdf attributes, especially in the area of zooming in, if another format such as JPG is used. The solution there may be found in the scaling of the original image, and I will continue to work on this concept and will keep you posted. I also want to pass along the fact that I now have another file ready in our continuing series on Jackson Purchase Land Grants. As most of you know, we are just about complete in our review of nearly 10,000 grants offered in the JP region, and I am now doing some "clean-up" work in putting together surnames which, due to fragmentation and other causes, have not yet appeared. The file offered today has only two surnames contained in it: Wilcox and Wilkins. But there are many grants shown to each surname, including a number to the heirs of these people(the heirs are not mentioned, however, in this index - the original land grant case file would need to be ordered to see if they appear there). Subscribers to the lists which I host can request a copy of this file by sending a message to me(not to the lists, please), asking for *File LG-887-8*. The file is available in both plain text format and Adobe Acrobat PDF. I will send the file as a plain text attachment to an e-mail message, unless PDF is requested. The file can also be sent in the body of a plain e-mail message, although this will often skew the columnar alignments. If this approach is needed, please specify that the file is needed as a *straight e-mail message*. The complete file will be sent. Time constraints do not permit me to go into the files and extract data about individual surnames. Non-subscriber/PML requests will be honored only if time permits. -B ===============================================================================