My friends - Greetings from Birmingham, Alabama, where I will be for the next week attending the Institute for Genealogical & Historical Research at Samford University. I am writing this from my hotel room on my laptop, and I will be posting from here all of next week. On the flight down here, I managed get into a 3 hour delay at DFW due to weather, requiring us to sit in the aircraft on the taxiway. When we finally departed, I counted 101 aircraft lined up to take off before our plane rose so high that I could not count any longer. We can do a lot of things these days, but we can't control Mother Nature. Before I left home, I prepared another installment in the JP Land Grant series. This one covers a part of the surnames which begin with the letter "B". More specifically, this file covers the following surnames: Beaver, Bennett, Bell, Berry, Blewitt, Brewer, Bett, Beaman, Blevins, Begg, Bittle, Billington/Bellington, Brinkly/Brinkley, Bridges, Brien, Birkhead, Bird, Biggs, Brimmage and Briant. If you would like a copy of this file, let me know and ask for file *BLG791* - I have had to start using a numbering system as we get into multiple files for different surnames beginning with the same letter. I'll send this file to you as a plain text e-mail attachment, unless you specify that you need it as a straight e-mail(which will often skew the columnar alignments). *Please note* that you will receive the entire file - time constraints will not permit me to go into the file and extract data on individual surnames. Those names in the file that are not connected with your family can easily be deleted after you receive the file, if you wish to do so. We never know, though - one of those surnames that get deleted may turn out to be one of ours down the road. I have a few responses to requests that are outstanding, and I have the material with me to respond, but it may be tomorrow before i can do so. Its been a tiring day, and I believe I will catch a few ZZZ's, as the young folks say(I guess they still say that...?<g>) -B ============================================================