My friends - Our good friend Jan Powell, who hosts the Obion County, TN List, passed the following URL along, and the narrative contained in the title of the article in the Subject line above, and written by Bettie Cummings Cook, CG, is so compelling that I want to pass it on to you. I hope you will visit this site, and read the article in its totality. It expresses my feelings, and those of many other tenured genealogists, very well. The Internet is great- as far as it goes, and Bettie spells out the good and bad about Internet genealogy very clearly. The URL is: http://www.rootsweb.com/~vaaugust/cook.htm I'll be back later with today's data post. -B ============================================================