Hi All, This is possibly off the topic, but I think very needed. This morning my postie arrived bearing a very large envelope. A few months ago, utterly desperate and all but out of options, I asked for some one to look up an MI for my wretched lot. Thinking "it won't be there it's too late" I received a reply from a wonderful man by the name of Kyle McAllister. Surprise, surprise (more like shock) she AND they were all there. YIPPEE a break, at last. Kyle didn't just send me her details he sent me a who page of MI's for all the other who were near her. He offered to take photos, even better I thought. Now you will all want to know what was in the giant envelope, well, Kyle bless him, had been to his local library ?? and looked for and photo copied oodles of other info on this family and sent me some post cards and as he calls them "padding", which was actually some local information (very interesting it was too) plus photos off the area. I am just so thrilled, I can't thank him enough. So the moral of this story is never give up, and remember fairy god mothers can also be men. Again THANK YOU Kyle, your blood is worth bottling. Regards Andrea in Melbourne Australia "Only a genealogist regards a step backwards as progress"