For all: I teach a class at least once a year, subject: "The living person you contact can be worth more than all the papers you find", with many, many examples. I have made several TERRIFIC contacts by joining GSMD (NY). I have made lifetime friends (most of them very remote cousins), and it has been a marvelous experience, especially when I have met them in person! They try to help me in my research, and I try to help them in their research. Whether it's Mayflower lineage you seek, or any other family, it you can find someone else researching the same family, you may learn and/or share a lot, and maybe find a friend for life. "The living person you contact can be worth more than all the papers you find". Best wishes to all in finding new friends and correct lineage. Marty Irons All outgoing messages screened by Norton anti-virus 2002, which daily updates the virus definitions whenever they change.