Hello list members, Let me tell you a little bit about the Beaver County Genealogical Society and how it can help you with your research. First, we have a dedicated staff of volunteers who meet every Monday and answer the queries that come in the mail. This is done in a professional and well thought out manner and the volunteers are all amateur genealogists with a great deal of knowledge regarding Beaver County. If you join the society for $10.00 a year, (a bargain! ) you get the quarterly journal called Gleanings. Gleanings is not a newsletter advertising our next pot luck or antique sale! Gleanings consists of lists: deaths for a certain year, tax lists, orphans, marriages, histories of churches, cemetery records, etc. Twenty-eight pages each quarter. In addition, you can place a query in Gleanings once each quarter and reach over 200 people (most NOT on the internet) researching ancestors in Beaver County. If you join, another added benefit is that we do not charge the $5.00 fee for research (copies still run 20 cents each). Then there are the surname files. At least 10 file cabinets (4 drawers each) stuffed to the max with files containing correspondence that has come from other genealogist for over twenty five years. All are filed by surname being researched. If you send us your family group sheets, we put them in the surname file. Who knows, tomorrow a distant cousin might do the same thing! Newspaper clippings are also dropped in the surname files. There could be a wealth of information waiting for you--you just need to ask. We can't promise the answers to all your questions on your ancestors but we'll sure give it a try with all the resources that we have. As much as we would like it, not everything is available on the internet and we need to search other places for our roots. Yes, I'm a volunteer for BCGS and proud of it. It's a great resource that is often overlooked. Alice Kern