TX-GALVES listers, I have been searching the web, talking and talking and talking to relatives, and have gotten a pretty nice chart of my ancestors, a few brick walls as many have I am sure. I know my next step is to go to a FHL. Well, I went and they were very nice but very busy there. They suggested that I need to document everything I had first through a genealogy library, then come back. For the terrified of new things kind of person of which I am, could you give me some advice on when I go to a library like this what do I do first? And then what do I do second. I would never have more than an hour per week to devote to this and I am afraid that I will do nothing but waste my time because I will be totally lost. If I could just walk right in and go to work, it would really boost my confidence. Anybody have a favorite game plan for this? Thanks for any advise. Gale From: ACDOGGETT@aol.com Reply-To: TXGALVES-L@rootsweb.com To: TXGALVES-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [TXGALVES] Surname: Wheeless, Penry Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 11:05:39 EDT Well, I haven't logged 21 years at the Clayton library, but I have spent quite a bit of time there. It's really a remarkable place, and I have encouraged many of the people I have met doing this work to donate their reference books and deposit the results of their work for the vertical files. I have used the library's facilities, and reached several of the descendants of this family, but hoped to find a few more through this posting before I finished it up and added them to the Wheeless web page. Thanks for your suggestion. Aubrey Doggett ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com