We had a great time in Guthrie yesterday. LOTS of people there looking for help and information. "Can you help me find my grandma Maggie? We think she might have been in Oklahoma once." "I want a birth certificate for grandpa Joe. Can you get me one?" "Can you find my Indian ancestors?" "My grandpa was in Pennsylvania, can you tell me where to get a birth certificate?" *<[:oD Gotta love it!! C|o:]>* Attendance was WAY up over last year. Had a lot of neat booths set up but didn't have time to do much wondering around. Got to see my cousin Joy from Enid and mom came down for a bit. We had several members of our little group stop by and say hello [ sorry for no names, I was pretty frazzled from problems and seekers after a short time ]. I even had one nice lady asking for help with Korean research. Problem was that when I found something that looked promising she couldn't read Korean. Seemed to me like we had a crowd around the table all day. IMHO - we need more people that are good at online research to woman/man the computers. I can usually find something but I'm not all that good at knowing where to look. A lot of my advice yesterday seemed to revolve around telling people that what was online was only what was put there by someone that had to find it first and to go to the county and search through the paper records. [ Gee, you mean I got to get out of my house and do some real research!! :o{ ] Had some frustration with the software to get the whole thing set up and I only forgot two cables from home that I had to go back for. But by noon had most things working. I thought Sharon C was going to cry for a while there. [ "I can't get online" {:,o( ] When I did get it up and running Marti couldn't even get her out for a smoke break. *<[:oD I wanted to get one computer setup on the chat room, but by the time I could get everything working we had so many people that I just never got the time. [ I hate software problems ] OH Well, next year we will do it bigger and better. (o:]>* Huggles *<[:o) Billie The three best words in the English Language: "I LOVE YOU" Pass them on!