Hello Everyone A friend of mine recently showed me a fascinating and different way of depicting the similarities of your family instead of using photographs. Find signatures of all your ancestors from old death notices, wills, estates, cheques, inside of old books, autograph books, marriage certificates, baptisms, anything . Scan in each one individually and paste them into MS Word. Then type in the name of the person and the year in which the signature came from. Putting them in order of age or generation. I did mine and it was amazing. First of all I realized that some of my family could actually write in the 1700's. The I started to notice the similarity in some of the handwritings for example my great great grandfather and then his great great grandson - it was frightening !!! The next time you go and visit some relatives take along a book with blank pages (or better invest in an autograph book - they still do sell them) and ask everyone to sign the book. Perhaps we could renew the old phase of autograph books - they are still great sources of information for families. Kind regards Heather Heather's South African Genealogy Help List www.genealogy.co.za Cape Town Family History Society www.genealogy.co.za/society/socweb.htm