Best wishes for the holiday season to all Barraclough descendants! For the new subscirbers that Linda mentioned, there are a couple of us whose ancestors moved from Yorkshire to Lincolnshire in the mid 1800s. If anyone traces their line to Joshua Barraclough (Some places spelled Barrowclough), born in Wibsey, 1765, married Elisabeth Horner in Harewood, 1798, then you can tap into some interesting data. Their son, James Barraclough, eventually moved from Wakefield to Barton, Lincolnshire and we have begun gathering lots of names and dates from there on in. Its the "before" part that is still obscure. My thanks to Linda and Kim and "The Elf" for putting me in touch with like- minded relatives. May the year 2000 be a peaceful and interesting one for us all. Jeannette Claridge