Dan: Good advice. I belong to several county and surname mailing lists. A couple of them are very active. From the help I received on just one list (Franklin County, IL) I was able to get my wife's' family back six generations within 24 hours of posting a query. She has found at least six new "cousins" active in genealogy, and we have our reservations in for a family reunion down there next July. I posted a query on this list several months ago but got no responses. I am looking for descendants of James Britton (my wife's great uncle) who moved to Klamath Falls from Toppenish, WA about 1930. He was born in Benton, IL about 1880. Tom in Michigan