thanks, ruthie. i thought you would enjoy it. no pictures, but oh well---pretty descriptive---and gives you a lot of family history, places, thumb nail sketches of your ancestors, etc. i read the stuff in life magazine and although dad wrote for life during those days, i don't think he wrote that article because there were popular words (at the time) in it that he never would have used. i suspect that his article originally appeared in the saturday evening post no earlier than a year before the life article, and the life piece was a follow up by another writer as an update to the post article. cindy