Hi Tmakiaz; I am so excited to hear from you and so quickly! Mega thanks! I shall spend the rest of the weekend exploring the links you so graciously shared with me. I hope very much that I can help my friend as I know that once he gets started the gen. bug will bite him! Then it will be too late as he will addicted like the rest of us ;) I knew that once I found this mail list that I would be among some of the best in the land! Thank God for the Net, Rootsweb, but most of all the wonderful wonderful sharing folks that I have met there! They never let me down. As I go I shall post my new findings/experiences in hopes that will help others on the list. Thanks very much! happy trails on the hunt; Patti Waldo Swaim :)