Knowing where people live...even today...can be quite interesting. I have just taken on a new housekeeper, she told me her mother had moved to Bristol so, knowing Bristol well, I asked her what part of Bristol her mother was living in. The answer really amused me..."Weston super Mare"!!!! I told her, that's not Bristol, it's about 3/4 of an hour away. You see, people who live down here in Penzance have no concept of distances and places. When I explained to her that the distance from Bristol to WSM was about the same as Penzance to Truro, she was shocked. So you can see how easy it was for people in those days to get confused. When I had a business in Bristol I found that many of my staff didn't know that we bordered on Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Somerset and they wouldn't have had a clue where Chippenham or Cheltenham were...that was until I taught them! So, is it surprising that our ancestors really weren't sure where they were born when they moved before the age of 6? My sister put me on Genesreunited without my permission - it seems she thought I was born in Yorkshire and she also got the year wrong! This didn't really surprise me as she was born 7 years later in Iraq! Liz www.btinternet.com/~e.newbery OPC for Street, Somerset