Don't we all love the people who sit in the darkness and then snipe at others. I seem to remember 'way back that we had a person who did just that. When one contributes information or helps in some way, one can ridicule what others find interesting and educational. Of course there will be some who are not interested in learning from others. If so they can use the delete button and let the rest of us, who are interested, continue to be further educated. With the number joining in, obviously others found it as interesting as I did. Thank you D H, and others for your very interesting inputs and links as to who 'discovered' America. There had to be people living there before it was 'discovered' by strangers in the first place. Each event, like a pebble in a pond, sends ripples out around the world, which shaped us into what and who we are today. We try to map the journey of our peoples and how they lived, explored and travelled and try to unravel and understand the what, when and why our ancestors left their birth country to take up living in a new one, sometimes in a community from their birthplace, others went alone to live amongst strangers. It is all part of our history and, what is more important, our families histories. If we don't learn something new each day we have wasted our time. "Only a genealogist considers a backward step as progress," should be our motto. Viola ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FERMANAGH-GOLD-request(a)rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message