jim: Thank you thank you so much for aiding me in getting more history on where my mother lived and worked during WW11 while welding on the ships there in the shipyards..... The site you sent me to is excellent: http://ccrh.org/comm/slough/vpconstruc.htm Happy Trails, Joan Also, visit my 4 personal home pages on spirituality and genealogy: http://www.geocities.com/crystalwoman_2000/roots.html crystalwoman@montana.com