I'm glad to see that there has been a healthy response to this post. Obviously not everyone agrees, but I personally think that GenealogyBank.com's on-line version of the Sun provides a gold-mine of information. I know I have found a remarkable bounty of data on my family despite having already undertaken 30 years of research. And ... I have just barely begun! There are a few issues. The scans have obviously been made from microfilm and are not of the highest quality but I have yet to find something that was not legible. Also the search function is a little odd. I think it works not on character recognition but rather on the shape or morphology of a word. For example, I had no problem with unique shaped words like Ruppert, Buchheimer and Holdefer. There were perfect matches. But, when I entered Heise, I got matches to Hesse, Reese, Horse and even Ladies! The other quirky thing is the Zoom feature. For some reason the default is set to a minimum size and sometimes Zooming actually freezes up the screen necessitating a restart. Despite these minor negatives, I believe the price of $20 per month (or less on a monthly basis if you take a longer subscription) is well worth it. In addition, GenealogyBank.com has a lot more than just images of the Sun. I have made a numer of hits off the Historical Documents database which contains a lot of scanned federal records (very high quality) that I would never have thought to search on my own. Happy Easter! Gary 6 April 2007 Baltimore http://home.att.net/~g.ruppert