For all of you people who have hit brick walls, check out Ancestry.com. Wow! Based on the frustration of hitting a brick wall in tracing my fathers family line, I decided to switch gears to my mothers side. I knew names of some of the people back until about the mid 1700's but did not know dates or or even wive's names. I went onto the Ancestry.com page and did a simple search for my earliest know ancestor in this line. What I usually find on those pages are just one or two names with maybe a marriage or birth date thrown in. This time was quite different!! To make a long story short, I found a GEDCOM file with that family line all the way back from my grandmother to my 9th great grandfather, 3 generations past the information I had before! The site is : http://www.ancestry.com Of course, all of the information will still have to be verified. But at least I have a name to verify, instead of going into it blindly! Thanks and good luck! Andy Reichenbach