I can't speak to your naming questions. But I'd suggest that even that far back, the medical history is important to you and your family. I had long known that my mother's mother had breast cancer in 1930 (she took the bus downtown to the medical-dental building, found herself a surgeon, and had a radical mastectomy. No radiation or chemo in those days. She livved 45 more years!). I got breast cancer in 1996. I had a modified radical mastectomy, no radiation or chemo needed, and am fine. My mother got breast cancer in 1999, had a lumpectomy and radiation and is fine. It wasn't until we were talking about her family the other day that she told me her mother's mother had died of cancer and she always had the idea it was breast cancer. So that's four generations. Not all the daughters got it, of course, but still it's important for others in the family to know! I also have a friend who can trace breast or prostate cancer (caused by the same gene, though neither is always genetic) in almost every death on one side of her family for four generations. If your family's doctors know about such risk factors, they can help you change the risk factors you can control and do the appropriate tests. Not to scare the bejeebers out of you, you understand, but that kind of information is one of the side benefits of genealogy! Doris Waggoner Seattle ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/.