Dear CIG Members: Remember how we helped Nancy to write a query for the Ireland board? Well, she pursued it when she got home and has already received a helpful response! You can view the interchange at: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=message&r=rw&p=localities.britisles.ireland.general&m=14105 and http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=message&r=rw&p=localities.britisles.ireland.general&m=14105.1 These are two line links, so if they are not clickable, be sure to copy the entirety of both lines into your browser. This goes to show how writing a simple query can help get started down that twisty path of researching your family history. I must admit that I am both surprised and pleased she got such a quick and timely response. Now when she is in Ireland she will be better armed to find her roots. I would like to hear from each of you that attended either or both session one and session two regarding Rootsweb's resources. Have you posted a query yet? If not, why not? If not now, when? Remember -- they are free. Also, if anyone has had trouble accessing the notes http://www.genealogist.tv/CIG_Lecture_RW_03_20_03.pdf please let me know and we will see what we can do to work around it. You will need the Adobe Acrobat Reader to be able to open and read/print them. It is freely available for download at http://www.adobe.com and does come "packed" with most every computer and software program today. >From the results obtained by having the group help write a query perhaps we should have a "brick wall session" and help each other write queries to help break them down! There was a lot of great input and I must say special thanks go to the human spell-checkers! Happy Trails, Lauren