Hi everyone, For many months now this surname list (at http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Valley/2039/) has been frozen and people have been unable to contact the list maintainer to add new surnames, update existing entries etc. For many months I've tried in vain to contact the maintainer of the list, using an email address that did work (unlike the one on the list pages), at least until today when her email quota seems full! I've decided now to take over the list and maintain it much like my existing Roxburghshire and Selkirkshire surname lists. The surname list for Berwickshire is very similar anyway - indeed I set up its original list pages in October 1997 and passed them onto the current maintainer to look after then. It shouldn't be too hard for me to run. It will take me several days to copy the existing surname list entries and put them up on a new website. I will also need to email all the people who have submitted entries to the Berwickshire Surname List in the past (who have entries in there already) to check that their email addresses work and/or if they want to update their entries. Some people who have submitted entries will have changed their email address so the address that I use to try to contact them will not work. If you fall into this category (i.e. have submitted an entry or entries, but the contact details for you on the currently frozen list are out- of-date) can you please email me to let me have your new email address. When the new version of the Berwickshire Surname List is up and running I will post a short message here, and also arrange for links to be made to it from places like GENUKI, GenWeb, Cyndi's List, etc. etc. Then I will be very happy to receive new entries to the list, especially from people who have tried in the past to submit them but without success. But in the meantime can I please ask for a little patience? Many thanks and best wishes. Viv Dunstan http://www.vivdunstan.clara.net/