John, Yes, I know this will be quite an undertaking. My goal is to have a genealogically-oriented directory, not a general directory. I don't plan to have a webpage FOR each church, but rather a webpage ABOUT each church -- a big difference. The webpage in the directory would of course include a link to any homepages found for each church -- no sense in duplicating information already available. But, what about all those churches that don't exist anymore, or that merged with other churches -- people need a place to go and find information about them. Also, while there are quite a few directories already out there, most seem to be geared to a specific synod. So, if you don't know the synod, you don't know where to look. My goal would be to point researchers to the proper synod, homepage, etc., for each church. Granted, the goal of "each church" will most likely never be reached. But hopefully we can gather useful genealogically-oriented information about many of them. Again, I say ABOUT -- not FOR. So, certainly we could point researchers in the direction of other resources that already exist. But, these pages will be searchable within Rootsweb, where many researchers come for information. Also, there are no resources similar to what I have in mind out there already, with the exception of a few individual churches that have posted a lot of information about themselves already, and from a historical point of view. Augustus Lutheran and New Hanover Lutheran come to mind there. I don't see this as a duplication of effort, if that is what concerns you. By all means, we would include links to any luther95.org & similar pages out there already. -- Mary John Dornheim wrote: > > All Lutheran Churches? My, Mary, that will be quite an undertaking. > Luther95.org already offers free webspace to Lutheran Churches mine > included. I wonder if we might be better off encouraging others to > contact them and other groups alfready in existence. > > Just my 2 cents, > John Dornheim