Dear List: In 1997 I received, as part of a package, a ROYALTY.GED from Parsons Technology when I purchased their Family Origins genealogy software. This GED contains much information concerning the early rulers of Europe, quite well-documented with references to many books on antiquity (not the usual unsubstantiated trash). With it, I have been able to connect to my family ancestors of well over 45 generations ago. I have also been able to determine that my family shares a large number of ancestors with Abraham Lincoln, and with the Washingtons, Spencers etc. etc. Those who have as ancestors Gov. Dudley of Mass.or his wife, Katherine Deighton, or William Hutchinson and his wife Anne Marbury, or the Hiltons of New Hampshire, or the Rev. John Wheelwright descendants in Maine, or are of the Lincolns, starting in Mass., can benefit greatly from use of this data base. I have, unfortunately, lost access to the GED after converting it to a personal data base, and then coding my ancestors with various prefixes to identify which family they were the progenitor of, thus making it extremely difficult to find the ancestor by a computer search as I add references from other text sources. The purpose of this mail is two-fold: 1) to alert people to the possibility of connecting to ancient ancestors, and 2) an attempt to obtain another copy of Royalty.GED (Parsons is no longer offering it on the Internet.) Would some kind person check out their files, and if they have the Royalty GED, provide me a copy? Please pass this message on to your e-mail correspondents who employ Parson's FO Software if you do not have the Royalty.GED yourself. I would be eternally grateful. Thank you.