Celia and all the 'cuzzins'-- I'm finally getting caught up on my homework, and trying to get some genealogy done. I'm in the process of updating my website, and I am getting ready to upload zipped files of all of our correspondence, similar to what I have on my site for the Burnett family. I will be using a program called WinZip to combine up to 100 of our e-mails into one compressed file, and there will probably be two or three of these files on the site. Once this is done, any new member who joins the list can go to my website and download zipped copies of everything that's been said up to this point. It's a good way to catch up, and not miss anything that might relate to your line. We have archived digest files available at rootsweb, that folks can go get, but it's a little more time consuming to do it that way. I also have the files from usroots, the old server we were on before, and these aren't available at rootsweb. I should have this on my site within the next few days. If you want to see what I'm talking about, go to my website and hit the Burnett Family History Research page, and click on the link that says "Download Area". You'll see what I'm getting ready to do for the Rudds. For those of you who are new to the group, the emigrant ancestor of the New England Rudd line, Lt. Jonathan Rudd, was married in the winter of 1646-47 by Governor John Winthrop(the younger), first governor of Connecticut, to his bride at a stream in Connecticut which is now called Bride Brook. The story of the wedding is on my homepage, as well as a picture of the 'Dowry Chest' purported to have belonged to Jonathan and his bride, whoever she was. One of the mysteries we've been trying to solve since the group began is who she was...Mary Metcalf, Mary Birchard, Faith Ripley, no one knows for sure. We'd still love to find out. My roll call: Lt. Jonathan Rudd(1620--1658)/? Joseph Rudd(1708-1787)/Sarah Moseley Increase (Moseley?) Rudd(1734-1802)/Bathsheba Johnson Johnson Rudd(1767-1817)/Abigail Brown Barak Rudd(1812-1900)/Livonia Lydia Atwood Alonzo Eugene Rudd(1841-1913)/Charlotte Amanda Empie Arthur Eugene Rudd(1868-1951/Berneicia Catherine Ralstin Ethel Geraldine Rudd(1905-1972)/Ralph Elliott Burnett Doris Evon Burnett(1930- )/Charles Robert Stephenson Kevin Kent Stephenson Joann has put me in touch with a descendant of Barak Rudd's in the last few days, and I've written to him...hopefully I'll have some more info to add on Alonzo's siblings and their families. Kevin K. Stephenson 1600 Kentucky St. #2 Lawrence, KS 66044 (785)865-1586 Data/Fax:(785)865-1586 e-mail: [email protected] website: http://falcon.cc.ukans.edu/~kevin2/homepage.html