I agree with Graham regarding family publication I started writing mine family newsletter in 1996. I jest recently completed number #38 Initial goal was to share my family history gleanings, and hopefully interest others on my family tree. I believe we have been sucessfull attaining these goals Initially I printed and mailed all the copies, but when the mailing list started approaching 50 copes and with increasing postage costs, I ceased surface mail and now have the issues available on line as "pdf" format. For those interested. www.chinnery.info click on genealogy, access to the index is about half way down. The first 31 issues also have onlien a composite index to all information. In closing How do we separate or make a distinction between family history, genealogy, and our memoirs? I contend that you can't, they are all one and the same. Genealogical data may comprise the "begets", but historical background and information depicting our lives and that of our ancestors is family history and makes genealogy "come alive". We may elect to present the resulting information as our memoirs or family history, but the end result is the same "we have preserved for our descendants a record of their past". Don Chinnery Sun City Center FL USA