Someone on one of my Swedish research lists referenced this site: <http://www.usu.edu/~oralhist/osarch.html> I have seen some of the links individually, but this site is very complete. Collected oral histories can be some of the most exciting finds you will make in your family history research. Look not only for your own family, but nieghbors, shirt-tail relatives, and even just folks who lived at the same time and near the same place. They have a quote on the page: Stories think, and they do it in the same way we do. They talk straight sometimes, right to the heart, but they have always a deep, symbolic understanding of reality that can dictate what happens on a conscious level. This analogy to our thinking may explain why stories are so important to us and why they appear to be so meaningful. They speak to us, as dreams speak to us, in a language that is at once highly symbolic and childishly literal. They mirror our consciousness exactly because they are composed through a process both conscious and subconscious. -Valerie Martin We love to have pictures of our families, and keep them even when we don't know the names. In the same way, our family stories are precious. We can always use more of them. Valorie