Welcome to Ann McBay who has joined this week. If you haven't already contributed, we hope to hear from you soon. ****** ****** ****** The "Anglicisation of Surnames" is an interesting thread - the "Book of Arran" Volume two documents the case of 'Sillars' - starting from the earliest Arran register as McInurignach (1702) (a variant of Mac-an-airgid, Son of Silver) to the English form Silver in 1718 and subsequent variations to Siller and finally Sillars. ****** ****** ****** Here is the index for the last six months of 2000 ... #64 Update re Bute Query Board use #65 Dealing with bounced messages #66 Index part 1 1999 #67 Index part 2 2000 to June #68 Announcement re List of Bute Researchers Home Pages #69 Info re MAITLAND & GRIEVE / Replying to Query Board messages #70 Understanding UK Postcodes #71 Follow up re List of Bute Researchers Home Pages #72 Hoax Virus warnings - reminder #73 Contributions on "warnings" / 2nd birthday of list #74 Site address for archaic medical terms #75 re snail mail problems in UK / GenUKI site address #76 What did our ancestors do in place of the "Olympics"? #77 Notice re "GenUKI" being used by commercial site. #78 Old Maps Site URL (see notes below) #79 Query re local songs #80 Scottish info on the English PRO site #81 What's available at Scottish National Archives Service #82 Modern Map Sites / miscellaneous tips #83 English NRA - what we may see at NAS #84 Copyright issues #85 A little humour #86 McKirdy Death Indexes - an example #87 "Voice in my Heart" Notes: #87 is followed by a break until #88 sent on 28/01/01 #78 I have been advised that the Old Maps site now operates in a different way - is there anyone out there who has used it recently who'd like to post an update ? ****** ****** ****** Feel free to join in and present your own items. Peter Cook [email protected] List maintainer and Co-host with Barbara < [email protected] > of the ButeshireGenWeb mailing list.