My friends - I am dropping by today to update the JP Homecoming figures and to let you know that another file is now ready in the continuing series on land grants in the Jackson Purchase region of KY. First, the JP Homecoming figure is now at 64, as we continue to aim at our minimum number of 75 subscribers committed to attending such an event, if it comes to fruition. The JP land grants file for today covers part of the surnames which begin with the letter "T", specifically the surnames Taylor, Tharp, Travis, Tarver and Tanner. The majority of the file is taken up with the surname Taylor. If you would like a copy of this file, please let me know by requesting file *LG876*. I will send it to you as a plain text attachment to an e-mail unless you specify that you need it as a *straight* e-mail message(which will often skew the columnar alignments). You will receive the complete file. Time constraints do not allow me to go into the file and extract the data for a single surname. To see which JP land grant files are available, go to the web site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygraves/JPGrants.htm No one has yet taken a stab at the latest Skills Puzzler. It is a difficult one to work with - about a 9 on our scale of 1-10 in difficulty. I will return tomorrow with the solution. -B ============================================================