It occured to me today, while reading the Roll Call responses that most of us are working on lines that are interconnected, at least in the early generations. This led to - since the respondees are using a computer the chances are good that they have and use a genealogy software program, and if they are, it likely has the capability of creating and receiving GEDCOM files. And - if they are using a genealogy program then a lot of us are likely doing data entry of the same people. So - is there anyone out there in Yoderland who would like to exchange GEDCOM files of our common, or not so common ancestors? I operate from a Macintosh, using REUNION v5.0.2. Editor Chris sent me a couple of GEDCOMs which were made in Family Tree Maker in Windows. They come into REUNION with no trouble, after all a GEDCOM is a gedcom. One of these has the complete line of Hooleys, which I didn't have so I am smiling :-) Chris sent them as a file attachment to an email message, took a while to download the one with 8909 names, (about 1 MB and 20 minutes at 14.4) but it works. I would be happy to exchange my research for yours. My only stipulation is that you are not allowed to publish on the WWW information about the present, living generations. There is still potential for problems if personal info is put up for living people (and I'm not even paranoid)! You may find that you don't like my work, but that's ok, just say "thanks" and trash it <G> Looking forward to your thoughts on this. Don