At the risk of seeming to toot our own horns here at the Library of Virginia, I cannot refrain from pointing out that carefully researched biographies of the third William Byrd (1728-1777) and of his second wife, Mary Willing Byrd (1740-1814), have been included in volume 2 of the Dictionary of Virginia Biography that we published in 2001. For more on the DVB, see http://www.lva.lib.va.us/whatwedo/pubs/dvb/index.htm Besides: "He who tooteth not his own horn, the same shall not be tooted." --John L. Lewis, United Mine Workers. Brent Tarter The Library of Virginia [log in to unmask] Visit the Library of Virginia's web site at http://www.lva.lib.va.us To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html