If you do not subscribe to Ancestry DAily News, which is free to all, especially genealogists, I urge you today, Sept 2, to read the column about the subject. Here is the UR for the daily news _http://www.ancestry.com/dailynews_ (http://www.ancestry.com/dailynews) If you have time to internet, you really should subscribe. Every weekday there is a very valuable column by a professional genealogist-writer about some important event or some important technique which will sharpen your skills--and we all need that kind of knowledge. And there is the ability to print out the ones which are of especial interest to you--I print out a LOT of them. I can hardly wait to access the revised website for NARA which Michael Neill has described in his column. The military pension records held by that organization for some of my ancestors have been invaluable in unlocking some family *secrets*--at least secret to me. Happy hunting!!! And tell your friends. I have posted to several rootsweb sites--but certainly not all of them to which I subscribe!!! E.W.Wallace