Hi Peter That is great. I am sure planes will be flying by October...I will be flying to Australia a couple of days later so I too hope the present problems will be over and done with. Don't worry about missing me when I was in the US. My trip was so very hectic. Which reminds me - I will bring the Medal and other memorabilia that I brought back from the National Women's Hall of Fame and tell everyone about it if they are interested. Of course, there are many other women whose families have settled in the US and who deserve the accolade I obtained for my ancestor, Rebecca Talbot Perkins. For those of you who don't know about Rebecca, her father (Joseph TALBOT) emigrated from Somerset in 1855, he died in 1890 from an attack of influenza which developed into pneumonia. Rebecca was his eldest daughter and she took over running his real estate business and became one of the first women to be Licenced to run a Real Estate Agency. She met the Pankhursts when they visited the US, she was a suffragette, she supported women's rights, she was what they call a "Club Woman", i.e. she did a lot of charitable work and was president of several women's hospitals and refuges. In 1921 she was asked to find a home for an "out of wedlock" child. As a result she started an adoption agency before adoption became a legal requirement. The adoption agency was non-religious, non-sectarian but every family had to go through strict interviews to ensure the child they were having would be happy and well cared for. Eventually the agency closed down in 2002 but not before they handed over some of their archives to me. Rebecca married Agar Luglow PERKINS who had been recommended to come from Canada to work for her in 1895 and she died childless in 1956. She had two sisters and only one niece who she put through law school, she was Reba Talbot SWAIN - the first female Deputy Attorney General for NY State - she sadly died in 1930 from cancer and so the line died out. There are only 260 women inducted into the NWHF so I feel highly honoured that Rebecca's name will live on. It was through one of the Rootsweb sites that I heard about the NWHF and decided to put Rebecca forward but I certainly didn't expect it would leave to an extensive journey and such a welcome from everyone I met. Liz www.btinternet.com/~e.newbery OPC for Street, Somerset ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Wilson" <pwil@ix.netcom.com> > Liz - Please add me to the list of attendees if the planes are flying > there > by then from the US. I am sorry that I had some complications pop up and > wasn't able to host you last fall.