My friends - I am dropping by to let you know that I have another segment ready in the Jackson Purchase Land Grants series. This segment deals with more surnames which begin with the letter "S" - specifically, San(d)ford, Sams, Sames, Salyer, Sanders, Satterfield, Shaw, Sample, Stafford, Skaggs, Straw, Straub, Swain/Swayne, Scarborough, Saunders, Smally and Scarce. If you need a copy of this file, please let me know by requesting *File LG867*. I will send it to you as a plain text attachment to an e-mail message unless you request that it be sent by "straight e-mail" (which often tends to skew the columnar alignments). You will receive the complete file. Time constraints do not allow me to go into these files and extract the data on individual surnames contained within them. As a reminder the JP Land Grants web site is located here: http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygraves/JPGrants.htm For those on the JP List, I'll be back tomorrow with the Skills Puzzler solution. -B ============================================================