Hi Everybody, I finally did it! As some of you know, I've been working on my first book, Gramma Knox's Legacy since 1999. I had originally planned to write the entire historical narrative fiction to include all my American "Gramma Knoxes" beginning with the first whose name has been lost to history to my last Gramma Knox, Lillian Northrop Knox, who died in 1968 at the age of ninety-two. However, my disabilities interfered with that plan, so I had to reroute, as they say. Rootsweb.com has allowed unlimited free web space to put my book on the Internet. Early this morning I finished uploading Gramma Knox's Legacy Book I covering the years 1718 thru 1774--the periods covered are leaving Northern Ireland for Boston; then to Hopkinton; to the founding of the town of Blandford, Massachusetts to the death of William Knox, my first grandfather in this country. Though most of the book is fact, I chose to write it as a novel. Outside of the Title page through the Introduction and Chapter twenty-two, the book is broken down in to two-chapter segments. The notes section cite quotes, events, and whether someone or something is fiction or not. There are no footnotes within the story, as I didn't want to interfere in the telling of it. Because my Scot ancestors who came here didn't speak the King's English, I have included a glossary to translate the Doric words they spoke. Some words have changed meaning since the eighteenth century, and some aren't used any more, so their meanings for the eighteenth century are also included in the glossary. I also include a bibliography. I wish I could I could say I did a beautiful and professional web design, but I didn't. The index does not list the chapters in order, but I thought, for me, it is more important to begin to write Book II than take all the time it would take to learn to be even in the parking lot of the baseball stadium of a professionally designed web page. I am proud of my work, and feel blessed to share it with all of you. Although my URL is under my signature, just in case something goes wrong in cyber space here it is again: (remember to use the last forward dash as it is the only way you can access the Index--which is what one needs to read Gramma Knox's Legacy Book I.) http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~peggyjknox/ Shalom Peggy J. Knox GRAMMA KNOX'S LEAGACY URL: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~peggyjknox/