Thank you, John, for the info re my query on Pialschie, which at one time was near the Kent, WA, one of the early pioneer sites in the area called Green River. The websites you mentioned, apparently done among Kent School District was very good, informative, and told a lot about early Indian (Nat Amer) life, their foods, clothing used for various seasons, modes of tasks in the various weather they encountered during the seasons of the year. I certainly enjoyed reading about that area, its earliest pioneers, some 10 yrs. before mine came up from Oregon. When I was researching at White Rivery Valley Pioneer Museum, Auburn in '83, I met David Neely there, a desc of the Neely ancestors some of the very earliest of the Kent area. He knew that I would show up again at the Museum, so the 2nd time I saw him, he handed me some great info that he had run off for me re my Clark fam. One item was the marriage papers for Peter Saar, mentioned in the Kent School Dist. info who m into our fam. and worked with members of our Fam in founding the Methodist Church in Kent, which eventually developed into the Methodist Episcopal Church on the corner of Central & ___, just a couple of blocks from my grandparents home, on Kennebec Ave. North.(now a housing complex site.). I did notice in the school district's info that they spelled my Jason Clark, Jason Clarke, and right away, I knew where they got that spelling from. In the bibliography, there was a later writing of the History of Kent, Washington and that book had errors in it to the point that my grandparents would not purchase the book for that reason. All our family of Clarks, were spelled Clarke, along with other items that they saw that were inaccurate. In about '83, I saw that a store was still offering the book for sale at $15/copy but on Sale for $8.00. I leafed through it and decided it was not of great value to me so I passed it by. The Library there has a copy, if I ever need to refer to it. The Bagley Volumes of History of King County were what I cut my teeth on, as I was 12 yrs old when I found one of those volumes among my grandparents bookshelves, found a biographical sketch of my grandfather, copied it, and 46 years later, I ran across that handwritten copy, noticed that I had omitted one line - drove down to Kent Public Library, walked in, went to a set of shelves that had all of Bagleys volumes in it, and that was where I got bitten by the BUG! I copied the sentence that I had left out, hit the Index for more info. and I was off and running with much more info about my family history which I found fascinating to say the least. Then upon later visits to the Library I found a room full of scrapbooks and historical information about Kent, and White River Valley. I just barely scratched the surface of the info available there, even tho I camped out in those rooms, before they became microfisched. The more I found, the more I needed to find much more. I know that I didn't get it all - there is tons more sitting there available, but I soon learned to play CLUES, and working the clues certainly does pay off dividends, tho I find that I have Lines which I cannot do so and they seem dead-ended, but it is really that I am not playing the right clues, nor the correct diligence. Thanks again, John, for steering me into some very interesting information available to me right on the screen and the convenience of my "ham shack"/"computer shack"! Best regards, (73) Carroll of Infamous Snohomish (but I still love it- despite the "newbies"!) * * * 30 * * * ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]