I want to thank everyone for their response about posting their names. this way we can get to know each other a little. I also want to thank the ones who had such nice words and made me feel at home here. :) And that is the point. This list belongs to you guys too, and I want you all to feel at 'home' as we will probably end up related... :) I am running a bit behind as usual, and will try to get to answering everyone.... I also have the West Virginia Coal Mining page. I have a few photos of miners on the page. One photo is a group of 9 miners at Marfork(Raleigh Co of course) and one of the men is my grandfather. If you have the time, can you visit: http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvcoal/tom.html and see if you recognise any of them or have names for the unknown ones. The ones I have names for are: Tom Stover, my grandfather Lewis Jarrell, Scott Cooper, James and Arthur Aliff.. Thanks, Gracie