It's not really a secret, but for 35 years, I've been writing down every Stevens/Stephens/Stebbins/Steffans/Stephanapolis etc that I can find. I've included all of their children & spouses & parents & follow each line back as far as it will go,and if I find the same person with same spouse & children & parents, I still make a new family for him if his birthdate is different. So, I have hundreds of thousands of STEVENS (Oh yeah, I've changed every name to "STEVENS" but I also include their real name. Such as "Wilford (Stephanson) STEVENS" so every first name is connected to every other. Just in case a name is mis-spelled in the census. (I hear it happens sometimes) :-) I have a site stevens-turner.com that is supposed to hold all of these, but nobody I know, knows how to set up a website. Maybe one of you knows or knows somebody ??? Every time I think I have about every Stevens/Stephens born in the eastern USA, somebody comes up with a name like Xerox Stevens born in 1355 in Hawaii & moved to Ohio when he was 6 and disappeard after the 1850 census. :-) I hope you realize I have a great sense of humor and there seems to be lots of humor in genealogy, though I take it very seriously. That's why I won't hook my Thomas Stevens 1813 Harrison, IN to any family without some evidence of it. Basically, almost every Wilford is in the Stonington, CT STEVENS or in the Orange, VA STEVENS. I've collected thousands of Stevens from early 1900s phone directories. This doesn't help much in the long run, but usually the families lived near each other and some times the directory said "son of ..." In May & June, I took a few genealogy classes concernting immigration from England & Scotland & Germany and one on Native American Immigration. I'm still not sure how you can be a "native" and an "immigrant" ? ? ? Does anybody want to build a huge database of STEVENS-STEPHENS, etc ??? Probably mine isn't as large as some of you already have. Always, DS