In a message dated 01/12/2002 6:00:41 PM Central Standard Time, [email protected] writes: My coment is if you want to know information about your more current family ask your second cousins as they are not as bound up emotionally in keeping those family things secret! regards Alyce > Moral to genealogists: The farther back you can trace your lines, and post > that information on the internet, the more you will find someone knows > about > your ancestor(s) and perhaps the family scandals. Don't ask me questions > about 20th cent. persons. I don't know my cousins' business (thank > goodness) > unless they want to share it with me. >