Sandi, I could not agree with you more about asking about an ancestor. Two weeks ago on another list, I decided to make one last try to find an ancestor that people had tried to find for about 40 years. My post was full of "it is thought", "may be", "might be" and "possibly" all in quotes as here. I cannot express how delighted I was when I got a private e-mail giving me the name of the ancestor and even his grandparents and all the grandparents children and their children - with proof. I would have been thrilled without the proof as it would have shown me which direction to go, but someone had found a book written in 1847 with all this great information in it. Marlene