At 04:47 PM 01/05/2004 EST, SnowBeri wrote: [snip] >residences/years...anything that gives some insight or character to my ancestors and >their families besides the usual name, birth, death, marriage. > > [snip] Apparently you're more fortunate than I am. (G) The number of my family members who WANT insight into the characters of persons who died before they were born are extremely limited. For that matter, I venture to say that of my GFs descendants fewer than 3 are interested in even just the names. One side is interested in "are we kin to X who fought in the War Between the States?" and the other side is interested in "We're not related to that drunk are we!" [The answer to both is Yeah, as a matter of fact we are.] HOW we're related bores 'em to death. I have a friend who says it's pure meanness on his part that he includes all the "dirt" in the footnotes, in a font-size barely larger than want-ads, thus having his cake and eating it too. (g) Cheryl *_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_* Cheryl Singhal (Singhals@erols.com) http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~cpafug/ http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvhampsh/ http://bottonycross.purpleflowers.net (Bottony Cross DAR) http://www.rootsweb.com/~cresap/ http://members.fortunecity.com/csinghal1/ (Joanna Waddill UDC)