I spent a while this morning doing what some folks consider morbid. But in reading the obits I was taken back by how many names I saw which I have also seen in MS, AL, GA and the Carolinas. I live in Texas and the greater part of the population of this state was made up of migrants from the above areas. Some of the folks are in their 90s and 80s so they are the links we are losing to family history. The Dallas public library has the newspapers on microfilm and I imagine Houston's does too. Some of the smaller towns have preserved their local papers though their historical societies. If I knew how to scan I would do some of these obits which name related families and some migration patterns. Tree Mother