On Wednesday 04 May 2011 18:34:19 Pam Dowling wrote: > Unclaimed Letters used to be advertised in the Govt Gazettes, (just the > list of names) but you'd need to be looking for a very unusual name to be > able to identify a specific recipient from the lists. And also, it strikes > me that if the recipient wasn't to be found where the letter was sent, and > it had to be advertised in Unclaimed Letters, then it's not going to be > much help to you. > I found two rellies in the same newspaper list! I was looking for my PYWELL family but also found my gg-uncle John VERCOE. It confirmed where the people in England thought they were. -- ==== Michael Lightfoot Canberra, Australia OPC Merther, St Breock & Egloshayle, Cornwall see http://www.cornwall-opc.org michael.lightfoot@pcug.org.au ====