Though I don't always agree with everyone on the board, I have never had a rancorous exchange take place. It might be because there were, discounting duplicate listings, about 50 Borings on each side of the war. I'm not sure how I'm related to them all, but the first Boring came from Ireland in 1688. He had seversl sons who went north and some who went south. We've been spreading and growing ever since. And that doesn't count the McCollums, Wallaces, and Prices that I haven't tracked down yet. Stan