Hi All I was sent a web page to look at that has a lot of good gen stuff on it: http://www.mdwsweb.com/genealogylists One link was: http://www.birminghamgenealogy.org/research/tutoials/6stepqry.htm 6 Steps to Writing a Successful Genealogy Query Only too often, and I am as guilty as any o doing it, we see a gen query that is too general. This page is well layed out and not that long either. The pages owner has obviously been around the net for a while and has done an excellent job of links and the info on it. He even made me smile when writing of the old SYSOP and BBS boards. We used to share and download like the dickens on these. I would say he has something on his page for everyone! Larry Friend (Black Buffalo) friend@2z.net