Hi List, Know this will hit home for a lot of you doing research like it did for me, so I want to share it with you. Joy Genealogy, why am I doing this? There is a tradition that each person dies three times. First, there is the moment in which the body stops functioning. Second, when the remains are consigned to the grave. Third, is that moment, sometime in the future, in which no one remembers the person and their name is spoken for the last time. Then the person is really gone. I believe that genealogists who preserve the memories of persons from their own familial past are preventing that third death. Let us keep our ancestors and loved ones alive in memory by never forgetting that if it were not for them we would not have existed. Author unknown