this is Justine I am new to this group and genealogy so I don't know any of you but I had to share this with someone I was so excited. I got a manila envelope in the mail from OK, hadn't the foggiest who or what it could be and to my surprise it was copies of pages from a book called standard history of Kansas and kansans written in 1918. with these copies was a message saying I heard you were researching and thought these might help. needless to say through the family grapevine she heard this and i now have about 10 pages of the bull history to pour over but it seems to go back to about 1600 or earlier. I was thrilled since I couldn't even find my g-grandparents anywhere on that side. I guess persistence, patience, asking questions of anyone who'll listen and some luck just got me a mother load. where frustration was setting in I now have excitement and enthusiasm this is all because I joined this group and told my aunt about it, yippee! I'll stop babbling good hunting to all of you. Jus