Eileen wrote: > You are absolutely correct. It is far easier to post a query on a mail list > than to actually do any research for yourself or to latch on to one of the > compiled trees and have your "family" go back to 360 A.D. This is true but is, of course, not at all what I meant by genealogy being easier now than 45 years ago. I have access to online records within minutes that I would either never have seen or that would have taken me months to locate. I have volunteers to do lookups in places that I can't get to. And best of all, I have been able to contact people working on the same families who have original documents that I would never have known about. But my first recommendation to any newbie who asks is always "Get a good book on how to do genealogy, and read it before you start." Ann -- Ann Avery Hunter Richmond, Virginia mailto:[email protected]

> never have known about. But my first recommendation > to any newbie who > asks is always "Get a good book on how to do > genealogy, and read it before > you start." Gotta tell you this is not my first recommendation. My first recommendation is talk to your parents, uncles, aunts, cousins, grandparents, etc. and see what they know before they are dead :) You can always "Learn on the job" later. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/