HUMOR: Christina K. Schaefer, CGRS <gfdroots@aol.com>, author of THE HIDDEN HALF OF THE FAMILY: A SOURCEBOOK FOR WOMEN'S GENEALOGY (1999) and six other genealogy books published by Genealogical Publishing Company, explains: "I wrote this in Richmond in the hotel when I couldn't sleep and there was nothing good on TV." LIST OF POSSIBLY THE NINE (TEN) WORST-SELLING GENEALOGY TITLES 1. Genealogy on the Far Side: Tracing the Interspecies Lineages of the Children of Alien Abductees 2. The Wrong Side of the White House: The Descendants of Illegitimate Offspring of Vice Presidents of the United States 3. When the Lights When Out: A Complete Roster of All Children Conceived During the Northeast Blackout of 1966 4. Eskimos in the Sun Belt: List of Alaskan Natives in Florida, 1880-1900 5. Odd but True: Using Ripley's Believe It or Not to Locate Your More Unusual Ancestors 6. Suds O'Brien: Immigrant Irish Working in Chinese Laundries in Gold Rush San Francisco 7. Notable Sin: Descendant Roster of North American Serial Killers 8. Forty Days and Forty Nights: All of Noah's Descendants Still Alive in the 20th Century 9. Familia Incognita: Tracing the Descendants of Antarctic Explorers 10. Book of Dow: How to build a tome. ;-) -- Warren T. Montgomery <monty@emirates.net.ae> Dubai, United Arab Emirates