Hey, Been sometime since I've posted here, but rest assured I've been reading the posts that have been coming through. Anyway I found out that Rootsweb.com has Internet Relay Chat. I'm thinking that it might be a decent idea to designate a day or days out of each month to have Stearns researchers gather online with the idea that some realtime discussion could take place regarding genealogy in the county. If you have an irc client already, here's the url irc://irc.rootsweb.com/#mnstearn I use Colloquy for my Mac -- http://colloquy.info/ Windows users might like mIRC -- http://www.mirc.com/ There are bunches of others, of course. If this is something that you might be interested in, grab a client and get on the #mnstearn channel. Then drop me a line on the irc channel indicating which day or days of each month most interests you. Naturally, if nobody comes online and sends me a message, then this idea won't go very far. If you have any questions about this, email me off list. See ya, Darrell -- Schulte | Braun | Nathe | Schoenberg | Caspers | Gerads | Stroeing | Minnerath