Hi All; This maybe slightly "offtopic", but since the Christmas Holidays are just around the corner I am submitting my "greatest wish" ever, in a poem that I put together <smiles> FAMILY TWIG If I could have just one Christmas wish, a wish for one and all To have all my Ancestor's photos in frame and spread across my wall Some not so cute, others are thin, some of them handsome and burly Some of them fat and down-right ugly with long beards and hair so curly Some of them with haggard faces, a sign of rough years gone by With only that photo left behind to leave us all wondering why Could it be the toil, hardship and pain through losing their child or Wife Could it be heartaches and their work so hard, to flea from religion and strife Were their lives not so rich to afford paper and pen and leave us with such a blank mind Without knowledge of their existence and wondering why, they were surely one of a kind They fled their Homeland from across the wide sea to live with comfort and peace To settle here on our rugged shores and knowing hard labor would never cease They trampled the rough and stone aged paths to broaden the Road for us all They left a reminder for us to research until we break through that old Brick Wall Genealogy is the word in which we all know so well, so search I will do, but not in vane I think of them daily with wonders galore and will continue to search til I can't find no more I am just a Twig from that old family Tree, not very hard working or even so smart But I will continue to hold my Ancestor's memories very dear and close to my Heart Cheers Evelyn