I want to take this opportunity to publicly thank Gordon T. Pace of Canada for his extensive research on the Pace line that has been of critical value in enabling those of us who descend from John Pace of Middlesex County VA to move beyond John to his ancestors in Shropshire. If you have not visited Gordon's website, I encourage you to do so. The main page is located at http://www.phc.igs.net/~gordpace/ and the pages at http://www.phc.igs.net/~gordpace/uk/1000.htm and http://www.phc.igs.net/~gordpace/lines/john-mid/jp.htm detail his research on this family. I also wish to thank Roy Johnson for his faithful maintenance of his Pace Network [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~pace/] and of the Pace DNA project [http://pacesociety.org/DNA]. As a project coordinator for another line, I am fully aware of the effort he has put into this project and he is to be praised for his efforts. Finally, I wish to recall with thanks the memory of Ruth Keys Clark whose bright and analytical mind, and dedication to research, kept many of us on track and provided needed clues in our own research. No slight is intended for any of the other Pace researchers who have contributed to our understanding, but these three deserve my personal praise. Charlie Hartley Nancy Gatewood Pace's great-great-great grandson