Mission Control from Houston back on the air. There is so much technology in this cotton pickin' house it freaks me out. Had even managed to lose AOL and it still comes and goes so if I drop off the radar don't be surprised.. Anyway, spent Fri. (Jean had entertainer) and Sat. (daughter's geekmeister home) "out" so I got to hit it hard in the Clayton 9-4:30 both days. I deem the trips to have been imminently productive. Probably with some hubris, I'll say I think I have Clayton's Prince George stuff pumped out. However, that was only 5 rolls of microfilm.....doesn't sound like much but they were wall to wall Ps. And all the surrounding non-burned counties have (in the Clayton at least) maybe couple of dozen reels each. I pray they are indexed. 1) verified for sho that there are only 4 items for us in PG deeds & wills 1759-60 for us. I think you all already have this. 2) re-tracked my way through PG Wills, Deeds, and Settlements 1713-28 (inclusive of a separate reel 1719-22). Not too many corrections and additions but enough to be worth the effort. 3) Wills & Deeds 1737-40. You also have this one but only in small part. I captured a ton of additions because I was now working off the actual microfilm instead of the copies I had the kid make for me. This is a great one. 4) Minute Book 1737-40. I don't think I have put this one up yet. It is voluminous and has real meat. This was first time I have worked with a minute book. They are tough to abstract because they don't follow any particular pattern but the entries are relatively short so its easier to just transcribe all except the really long ones. First thought: this stuff is so harum-scarum it can't be helpful. Second thought: the further I got.....wow, this is neat stuff even if it is sort of like shelling and picking walnuts if you're the one doing the transcribing. 5) Court Orders 1714-20. This was first run at this one. I had deliberately put it off. This one has about 400 pages with average of 4-5 entries per page and the sucker is NOT indexed, as in "you gotta scan the whole thing"! Now THAT really is picking walnuts. Started at noon Sat. and got to page 124 by 4:30 so that says I gotta find another 2 days somehow before we return to Louisville. Orders too are a mumbo-jumbo deal. The good news is that most of them begin "in the action of Billy Bob Smith against Bubba Jones" and that lets you move along fairly well because you can do the rest of that particular entry fairly quickly. Also, of great scanning help (and probabably has been all along but I just didn't realize it) is that the little double "s" symbol has "a presence" both "above" and "below" the line and is therefore easy to spot as the eye runs down the line of "copy." Anyway, all of the above is now "on paper" and all I have to do is decipher my own handwriting and put it on a floppy that I can manipulate when I get back to Louisville and post it for you all. All is well. Loving the 65-70 degree days but a ton of rain. See ya. Maynard