Helen - Great story - thanks for sharing. My biggest problem is that I have severe allergies and the thing I'm most allergic to is - mold. And old books are full of that. So when I'm working with the old books I must take frequent breaks and blow my nose a lot. The biggest problem with searching in the old records is that you don't know exactly where to look. You know someone died about 1850, but his estate may not have been settled for 50+ years later so you must look in the indexes of all the books. Speaking of which, does anyone have the will of Lewis Stover, Sr.? I never found the will, but I found the court case between the brothers over his land, and in that case it says my 2Grgrandfather James Stover filed a will with the court. So near and yet so far...... Thanks. Louanne ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com