Well, Vee from Youngstown NY has been so kind to me & so sharing with information that she got me thinking about what each of us knows that someone else may really be interested in! I had no idea that someone on one of my lists would be able to share with me information about my old home town, classmates, etc. Anyhow I got to thinking.... Although sharing knowledge is a community building activity & so makes for great lists, it _IS_ a bit off topic, so that's why I labeled it as such above. Now, that said, when I finished my note thanking Vee earlier I went on to check into some websites I like to drop in on from time to time & when I was at this one site in particular I thought of you folks. And it occurred to me that anyone who is part of this group is interested in information of all sorts, so maybe many of you may be interested a newly found site on my favorites list. In over 8 years of internet experience I've never seen anything quite like it & think you'll agree it's pretty unique. It’s called “It Pays To Learn” & it has all kinds of fun quizzes (& more planned) & it does what it says...it actually pays members to learn! I've learned things...& have had fun doing it. I think VEE should volunteer to be their expert on Niagara frontier history & make up quizzes for them on that subject. They have something called "the knowledge bank" planned which I can't wait to find out about & think that many of us could come up with something to contribute to that. Maybe we could even get some of the younger generations interested in "boring old history" just by pointing out the "real people" aspects of it. In any case, it’s all free, and people of all ages and educational backgrounds can sign up and participate at their own level. One of my daughters is homeschooled & they've got stuff planned for that segment of the population, as well as for my son in college, my son-in-law the teacher who also takes grad school courses, my granddaughter the pre-schooler, my grandsons in grade school & even an old grannie like me :^) Now this is a little self serving, but only a little :^) Members get bonus benefits for referring others, so when you first go to the website to check it out please use the following URL (web address), and it will automatically give me credit for referring you to IPTL. You can just click on this link or cut and paste this web address into your browser window: http://www.itpaystolearn.com/default.asp?ref_id=AAE028 If you sign up without using this web address, please enter my Member ID, which is AAE028. I think this is a great idea, and if you do too just sign up and then please tell others about it. And if any of you know of other things we might be interested in - like history sites or mapping sites, or timeline sites or whatever... let's get busy sharing them! Thanks for listening, Susan Reynolds - the transplanted Lewistonian with ELLIS roots in Otsego co