As a new subscriber, I have been the recipient of some valuable information on my family from Kim and, for the past couple of weeks, I have become totally absorbed by the information I have been privy to through the "Digest". Seeing familiar place names such as Gomersal, Birkenshaw, Cleckheaton, Batley etc. has been quite something, but yesterday in an e-mail from Kim the name BIRSTALL, West Yorshire, leapt off the screen. As small towns go, Birstall is SMALL, and having spent the first 28 years of my life there and having a grandmother from the Barraclough family (a Mary Barraclough no less, but not the one who married a Collins, my Mary married a Matthew Taft), there just has to be some connection with new subscriber Jeff Sutcliffe. I know of no family connection with the Collins, but the name is very familar as the name of an old friend from Batley. I look forward to hearing more from Jeff. Alan Taft