In a message dated 7/18/99 3:10:12 AM EST, [email protected] writes: << There is no comparison to getting the information on the computer, and standing on the grave site after hours of digging in records, beating doiwn the brush and briars to get to the grave site and find the remains of an old log cabin foundation and chimney standing and see a small fenced area with some stones in the ground, with numbers barely readable. They turn out to be great Grand Parents and others, you would not have gotten off the computer. >> You are so right, it makes the words on paper come alive. I remember taking a picture of an old house one time just because it was interesting - and then I ran aross a picture of it in an area historical book - it had belonged to long-ago distant cousins!