Bill, Maybe it's a disease? Ha! I got so excited about finding a picture of my wife's gr-grandfather at National Archives I wanted to just yell out loud in that "quietness". You are right though....other folks don't understand our excitement. Glad to hear you got quick results from DC Archives!! Harry At 09:28 PM 1/31/03 -0600, you wrote: >I sent a request from the D.C. Archives website last weekend, got several >error messages, but today received almost all the requests (except one) from >them. I thought the waiting list was so long I'd have to wait a year or >more to get it. Looks like things are improving. Very delighted and the >information knocked down one of my walls, but not my most difficult walls. >Still I'm very delighted and shocked that the response time was much shorter >than I expected. > >Isn't it amazing how us genealogists can get so excited over receiving death >certificates in the mail. My family thinks I'm nuts and can't understand >it. > >Bill > > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >