I received this through the SC List. I haven't had time to work with it but he said we were free to pass it on so good luck researching for that elisive ancestor. I will give it a try soon. Beulah Wow, I was stunned by the amount of email I have received so far in reponse to my post last night about how to create powerful searches with Google. At last count I had a little over 60 emails with thanks and questions. Some people were a little confused by the depth of what is possible. All along I had been planning on creating a web page for my own use to do the work for me. No more having to remember all the little ins and outs of the parameters. As of yesterday I had never gotten around to it. But, now with so many people obviously interested in this I went ahead and created a simple page for searches using all of the techniques that I mentioned last night. There are several different search boxes for each of the types of searches I discussed earlier. All you have to do is figure out which one you want to use, enter your search term and press the search button. The address is: http://bluntrazor.com/search.html The page is very plain looking. I'll be out of town through Tuesday, but when I get back I'll gussy it up some and add more explanations and search methods so the page is more helpful. I always take anything on the internet that I haven't researched myself with a grain of salt. I tend to think of internet information as a guide to let me know where I need to be looking until I prove for myself what I find out there. So, please remember to question everything you find until you can prove it yourself. There are far too many people out there who will gobble down anything they find on the internet as fact when sometimes it isn't. Also, as I said before, these Google search results are not 100% complete. Google tries to index every single web page it can get access to, but it can't catch them all. I have found this to be true when I get results from the genealogy.com forums. Google has a lot of the posts indexed, but not all of them. So, always double check the sites first hand instead of relying solely on Google. There are also ways to prevent Google or any other spider from getting access to certain files. I use this on my own web site to keep certain things private to family members or certain fellow researchers. Others use these privacy methods to keep their sites from getting bogged down with spiders crawling through their databases. Thank you all for your kind comments and I wish you luck in your research. Feel free to pass this along. Regards Greg Matthews ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.