Thanks for sharing that, I know exactly what you mean. Part of me thinks, I am amazed at all the paperwork I HAVE found, and now every time I sign a document, I try to make it a little neater, because future generations might search and find it! Another part of me thinks, with all the uncertainty at times trying to determine if someone is "ours," I wish we could start having DNA identification for things! But then, some people this day and age don't WANT to be found (hmmm... maybe things haven't changed so much. Maybe some of those in earlier generations didn't WANT to be found, and that could explain our difficulties?) Oh well, just thinking with my (typing) fingers.... Bobbi Laird klaird@kawartha.com writes: << If there are some strong corollaries, then one can at least proceed to the next stage of examining land titles, wills, geographical locations, townlands and so on. I realise that this suggestion may be anathema to some purists, but we all know the extent to which names were changed to become more "socially acceptable" at different periods in the histories of various cultures. >>