Hi Gail and Sheri & all, yes, you are right to be serious, there are way to many published "Genealogies" in Libraries and especially on the Web. that could confuse a fox hound with a good scent <Smile> on one of my other lists, someone has this motto as a tag line and its a VERY GOOD one too, it goes something like this: " Genealogy without Documentation is Mythology" Shar