Yep, always good to see that someone has actually put some thought into reducing clicks (or keystrokes) for the user, and included a meaningful on-line guide. With very little effort, some other unnamed sites might have been made similarly user-friendly ... and maybe even free of those pesky security issues that plague making public records public. John "John Polk" <jfpolk@comcast.net> wrote: >Well they say comparisons are odious, but with the foregoing comments I >can't help but point to the PA Archives website where you can pull up all >the PA original surveys, or rather the later transcriptions thereof,  with >just two clicks, if you have the volume and page reference. To see how easy >this is just go to >http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/Bah/DAM/rg/di/r17-114CopiedSurveyBooks/r17-114Ma >inInterfacePage.htm > >They also have all of their county warrants registers on line at >http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/Bah/DAM/rg/di/r17-88WarrantRegisters/r17-88AllCo >untiesInterface.htm >If you are looking for the first settlers in any county you will find them >here, alphabetized by first letter of surname, then listed chronological. >- If only they had included the "lower three counties" in this index   : >( > > >John Polk