Hi everyone! Thank you for the warm welcome. I'm very happy to be aboard. I've been very busy these past few days updating the websites for Dickey and Sargent counties. Judy certainly did a lot of hard work laying a great foundation and I hope I can keep it going so that these sites can become wonderful resources for anyone doing research in the southeast section of North Dakota. I'd like to share a bit about myself and hope I get to know you, too. I've been an avid genealogist for over a quarter century and pecked at it for almost a decade before that. I live in Kent*, King Co., Washington. I'm an active member of the South King County GS where I presently serve as co-chair of the education committee. I teach beginning genealogy workshops on an ongoing basis. I especially enjoy teaching young people. This is my very first time working with web pages. I wouldn't have attempted this but a very dear friend, Mary Kozy, encouraged me. In fact last Friday when I told her I finally got the sites she came over and gave me a personal 8-hour crash course on writing html code (6 p.m.-2 a.m.). Mary has 4 GA counties and is a webmaster. I have the desire to want to do a great job but I found out in short order I knew nothing. Last Thursday I was as lost as you could imagine. If you like what's there, it's because Mary got me set up. She's an excellent teacher and I'm not afraid to try. I'm also grateful to have Paul Fedries's book "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating a Web Page" 4th edition. This past weekend I've felt like a rebellious teenager - doing bare minimums on daily duties and staying up all night partying with html code. But I'm not young enough to keep this pace up many more days. Besides my family wonders if I have left town. ;-) My husband Tony and I have been married 32 years. We have 12 children, 4 boys and 8 girls. 5 still live at home, ages 7,10, 12, 15, 17. Our oldest 5 are married and we have 14 grandchildren with #15 due in June. All live within 10 miles of us except one daughter and her family who live in Bountiful, Utah. This means I get to go there a couple times a year. When I do I split my time between being grandma and researching at the FHL in SLC. I'll be there next month attending the UGA Conference. I'm excited. I'm excited all the way around. Come visit Dickey and Sargent Counties, yes, they look alike. (I wish I knew how to do what Tim has done on the Dunn County site where the visitor can choose the background color.) Before I sign off. Here's a bit of trivia from the 2000 Census - *Kent is a city of 79,000 covering 29 square miles. Dickey and Sargent Counties together have a population of less than 10,000. Well, I've got to get back to doing what I should. Take care. -Char