I agree with Don... I am on other lists that have tightened down on what goes because there have been abuses which so far we haven't had. One group has 350 members and has to be run strictly business. With a name like Sasser in our background we are all related somewhere down the road! I also enjoy getting to know the people on a list. Here is my bio: My name is Debbie (Humfleet) Mauelshagen. I was born and raised in a small town about 30 miles from Detroit MI. My father was born and raised on the Humfleet family homestead in KY founded in the 1800's by William Umphlett and his wife Piety nee Sasser. He played in Mt. Olivet Cemetery where a few Sassers are buried, went to church in the Mt. Olivet Church and went to school in the one room schoolhouse there on the same property. I remember visiting the area as a young child and seeing the School, the chimney of the original homestead and a few tumbling down out buildings. I have some copies of some photos of the old home which I hope to post on my web page soon. I grew up in Walled Lake MI and moved away upon getting married in 1975 to Ralph Mauelshagen. We still lived in MI for another 2 years. After visiting my relatives in KY, AL, TN and GA one year on vacation, Ralph fell in love with the Atlanta area. A year later we moved there and stayed for 10 years. In 1981 my first child Laura was born and before she turned 6 we moved to Dallas TX where we are still today. Ralph works for Interstate Batteries as an IS Project Mgr (Computers) and I homeschool my now 15 year old daughter and also have a custom dressmaking and alteration business in my home. Since moving to TX we also have 2 more additions to the family, Karl Nathanael "Nathan" 3 1/2 and Susanna Joy just turned 2. I have to all consuming hobbies one of genealogy and the other smocking and making my young children's clothing. I am the "owner" of the Humfleet list on Rootsweb, it is new and very small and not very active but it has about 15 people from very different branches of the family. I thoroughly enjoy genealogy research in fact yesterday I finally got my first connection to the "old country" in one of my lines! I am just waiting on documentation! I started doing research on my tree about 12 years ago when Ralph's sister (who is married to my brother) took a class on it. She and I did some research together for a few years before we moved to TX. After I moved both of us dropped it for a number of years. I got started again last year when we got Internet access. In one of my forays into the world of the web I found Don, this was before SASSER-L was in existence. We swapped info and kept each other posted on what we were finding... he found MAISER and founded SASSER-L and here we are. Happy Hunting! Debbie www.isource.net/~ralph I do have some of my Lines posted on our web page. I am after my computer expert to do some revisions this weekend (Maybe?). Right know it shows my ancestors and I am switching it to show descendants so that the "branches" will show. Check it out later next week. looking for: ASHER**BAIN**BRYANT**BURNETT**HUMFLEET(and its 30 zillion variations) **JONES**ROGERS**SASSER**SPRINKLE**UMFLEET**UMPHLETTE** as my main lines.