My friends - I now have yet another land grants text file available. This one covers some of the land grants made in the JP to person whose surnames began with the letter "H". Included in this file are the surnames Howard, Hobbs, Holt, Houser, Hopkins, Holeman, Holloway, Hood and Housman. If you need a copy of this file, let me know and I will get it to you. I will send it as an e-mail attachment unless you request it as a straight e-mail message(which tends to cause the columnar alignments to skew). The list of JP land grants text files not available are as follows: Smith Jones Brown Adams & Adair Allbritton Carter Copeland Farmer Helm Lovelace Parker Adkins - Alexander Alderson - Andrews Staton & Misc."S" Surnames(Part - see original post) "G" Surnames(Part) - see original post for exact surnames "C" Surnames (Part), including Cochran, Cocke, Cook and Cooper "P" Surnames (part) "L" Surnames (part) - 2 files (see original post for names) "R" Surnames (Part) - see original post for exact surnames. "C" Surnames (Part) - see original post for exact surnames "H" Surnames (shown above) Please bear in mind that, in future text files, some of the same surnames may appear again(but for different individuals within that surname), depending on how accurate the original alphabatizing may have been. No takers at all on this week's Skills Puzzler, but it is a tough one. I'll wait until tomorrow to post the analysis, so that our Digest subscribers will have an opportunity to look at it , also. -B ============================================================