My friends - I am glad to be able to report that all of our beta testers have reported in with their findings concerning the KGS Series VI Digital Maps of the JP region in CD format. The results were uniformly good, including the tests performed with Mac's, with all programs used found to be workable and able to open the images, excepting only one, which is not a mainstream photographic software item. Based on these results, I believe we can proceed to the next step. I am preparing the necessary CD label design, which I hope to have finished in the next few days, after which the item will become available. Many thanks to our beta testers who took the time to check this out for us. Recently, I asked if we might have someone on any of the JP lists which I host who might be willing to help one of our subscribers get a workable website set up on which old photos and other memorabilia could be displayed. I noted that I had obtained unlimited RootsWeb space for this use. Quite a number of people sent messages to me, pointing out that our good friend Don Howell had just such a site over at Yahoo. No one has yet offered to assist in the site setup. I had refrained from mentioning that it is Don who needs our help. He has given permission for me to explain that his Yahoo space ran out some months ago, and that he now needs to get the images at Yahoo over to the RootsWeb site, plus adding more, as they become available. Don has done, and continues to do, a great service in making these early family photos and other items available for our viewing. He has logged many miles going to antique dealers, estate sales, and other places in the JP, and has freely made the results available to all of us. So I am asking again if we might have someone who could work with Don for a short period of time to get the site up and running at the RootsWeb location. It will not be a full-time situation, as Don will handle everything after the initial setup is completed and the process for uploading is established. I would do it myself but for the time constraints which I currently have,and will continue to have for several more months. If we have some folks who would be willing to help Don out, please contact me by private e-mail and I will fill you in on the details and put you in touch with Don. I have had several inquiries about when I might be posting the short histories of the JP Masonic lodges, which I had indicated I would do earlier in the year. I have completed about a third of them(in hard copy), but my source for the information has gone away for the moment. But don't give up on that subject. It is still coming. I apologize for the delay. On another note, our very good friend, Sandi Gorin, whom many of you know as the host of the South-Central-KY List, as well as the State's resident expert on her area of KY, will shortly be having surgery on both of her eyes. I ask that we will all remember her during this time, and keep the hope and prayer that all will be well after these procedures are completed. -B ====================================================================