Dear Cousins, Now that I am at home for a few weeks, I decided to get back to work on the SASSER FAMILY INDEX. For those of you who didn't hear about this when I posted the message a few months ago, this is a type of family index that I invented several years ago and long before I ever used a computer. This is a single family name index and does not include descendants of Sasser girls (such as myself). Everyone in the Index is a Sasser (or the wife of a Sasser). It looks like this: FIRST MIDDLE MAID/NICK BORN WHERE BORN FATHER FATHER MID FATHER ID The first two columns are obvious. The third is for the maiden names of wives (in all CAPS) or nicknames. Born is for the year born. Where born is always a county name and sometime a state. Johnston is ALWAYS Johnston County, NC. Any other county with the same name has the state added. Father is for the father of the person or the husband in the case of a wife. The ID is a combination of the father's father's initials and the year the father was born. This ID is to help "identify" WHICH relative you are talking about when you have a common name. For instance, my ID for ARTHUR SASSER of Laurel County, KY. would be (H)18. This indicates that this is the Arthur whose father's initial is H and that this particular Arthur was born in 1818. It works great when you have say, a John, with no middle name. We have had several hundred John's in our family in the last 400 years so WHICH John are you talking about. I started on the Sasser Family Index several months ago but then lost it all when I had so much trouble with both my old and then a new computer. Now, I have started over and already have more than 4,000 names in the Index. Someday, I hope to get all the family records on the computer and be able to create an Index of descendants as well. More on this good news later... Your cuz, Robert Earl Woodham