>George,
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>>I don't have that problem. I forget the name of the company, but it's in Bath, Ohio. They put out a "complete" registry of all the Taskers in the United States. Let me put it this way...the Cartersville phone book is larger.
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>The Bath people are well-known to genealogy researchers -- they claim to sell you a detailed family history, then just give you a few pages of family name info cut and pasted from somewhere, a few pages of generic "how to search your family history", and then just a printout of pages of names and addresses.
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>Mostly a total waste of money for serious researchers.

Oh yes. My wife, however, thought it'd be interesting to have a listing of all the Taskers in the U.S. and coughed up the $50 (I think) for it. According to these folks there are only something like 1,800 households in the entire country with that surname. Of course, one of those is my ex. Just thrilled me to death to see her listed< wg >.