My hat arrived home on Monday 16 May but its master was a little worse from hay fever. I got home to find that my phone line would not work and therefore my PC/Email. Andrew cleared one blockage but there must have been a second one as when I tried again to log on it only downloaded 422 of some 460 messages. So this morning he came over and the PC worked and so now I have some 600 plus messages to clear - some of which have come through more than once. So plenty of work over the next few days to clear this 5 week backlog. This trip to the USA was quite successful - with over new 250 families identified plus another 50 or so new families from those that came to the talks arranged for me in both USA and New Zealand. I came home with my Qantas bag full of material I collected during the 4 week trip. I think it weighed about 12 kg and I had other material in some other bags as well. Mike Boyd Historical Committee, HBS PS I will firstly clear the non Boyd messages and hopefully by Monday or Tuesday start to answer people's Emails plus