Now they are starting to roll in. Accepted until Friday Oct. 27 and then posted on the 28th and the 29th. Then shut down. Again, I cannot respond to any entries individually. Just trust that your's was read. Please send only a common English, Scottish, Irish, Welsh name with its derivatives to follow it. Do not just send a bunch of names with no suggestion of a relationship. Do not send modern alternatives like Babs for Margaret. Just send those that we would expect to find on the rolls of a hundred or more years ago. When "Fergy" named her daughter Beatrix [help me out here...I think that is correct], I thought what an awful name for a wee bairn. But then I had my head slapped silly when I learned that it was a derivative of Elizabeth, the Queen's Christian name. Go figure. You never stop learning something in this genealogy business. It has been noted that there are other sites with this very same task already at hand...that is a good point. The list I am trying to make is one which is more--personal--to each family. A popular URL was given to me to check out. The name George and Georgina were not on the list. So, where as there are lists, a blending of them all would need to be done to catch all the names. Al Dempster -- The cycle of our intermingled lives brought forth the seeds of an intermingled friendship...no strings attached, none expected. "From the lone shieling of the misty island, Mountains divide us and the waste of seas; Yet still the blood is strong, the heart is Highland, And we in dreams behold the Hebrides. Fair these broad meads, these hoary woods are grand -- But we are exiles from our fathers' land." That's all for now. Best wishes -- Rob *********************************************************************** NO COMMERCIALISM, NO ADVERTISING, NO PAY PER VIEW, NO PAY FOR CD'S, NO STEALING OF THE HARD WORK OF OTHERS--AND SELLING IT. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- GOD GRANT ME THE SERENITY TO ACCEPT THE THINGS I CANNOT CHANGE... COURAGE TO CHANGE THE THINGS I CAN, AND THE WISDOM TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE...so don't get mad, get even by using logic! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- In the Book of Islam we are told to do first with the word, then with the deed, then with the hand...ask, exemplify and then act...but above all...think. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "There is no mechanical problem so difficult that it cannot be solved by brute strength and ignorance." Boyd Lopez...who got it from ???? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- YOU MAY GET FLY-BY-THE-SEAT-OF-YOUR-PANTS TECHIE-ADVICE FROM-THE-SCHOOL -OF-HARD-KNOCKS AT MY E-MAIL ADDRESS ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- I use the following fave progs AND services, but I do not advertise their use. SEARCH: COPERNIC 2000: http://www.copernic.com/ SOFTWARE: http://www.winfiles.com/ ANTI-VIRUS: http://www.antivirus.com/pc-cillin/ : http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/ LATEST VIRAL UPDATE: http://www.antivirus.com/trendsetter/virus_report/ SECURITY: http://www.astalavista.com/ [plus lots of naughty bits] SUBSCRIBE: http://www.antivirus.com/subscriptions/default.asp GENEALOGY: http://www.mytrees.com/ http://www.kindredkonnections.com/ LDS CENTRE: http://www.familysearch.org/ WAR STRATEGY FOR ALL OCCASIONS: http://www.chinastrategies.com/ LEGAL STUFF: http://jurist.law.utoronto.ca/ BEST COMPUTER MAG: http://smartcomputing.com/ ANY QUESTION: http://www.askme.com/