Sorry in my last post I forgot to switch the subject line. A corollary to desiring more participants in my study, is my concern that if it grows much more it will consume my entire life! I don't have a particularly large study right now, but it's evolution is proving what a complex surname I have. There are multiple groups with matches possibly, if not probably, within a genealogical timeframe to other surnames. Oh for a study where everybody matches their own name with only an oddball NPE. Even where the matches to other surnames are more likely before the time surnames came into use, my participants in general are very interested in those early ancestral origins, which is an even more time-consuming thing to digest, at least for me. If I'm lucky to have several participants doing a substantial amount of research on their line/group. That's an enormous help, while at the same time I spend a lot of time trying to get up to speed with their methods and reasoning. All I can re! ally do here is state the obvious: the larger the project the more time it's going to take. I love doing this, but I'm growing concerned about the time commitment. Martha