Welcome to Bill Dunn, "Saltire1", Kay & Bill, Jim Ludwigsen, Audrey Coulter, Jane Price and "colquhoun" who have joined this week. Welcome back to John Beith who rejoins after a change of ISP, and to Mary Hamilton who has also rejoined after a short break. If you haven't already contributed, we hope to hear from you soon. ****** ****** ****** There has been an addition to the List of Buteshire Researchers Home Pages http://www.rootsweb.com/~sctbutes/homepage.htm this week - under Kilmory, Arran. The newly linked site has some interesting photos and a map extract for part of the Feorline area of Arran. Long time list members will recognise the subject matter on the History of Arran page of the site, which appeared here over 4 weeks in late 1999. The copyright now resides with Alice as publisher of the Web site, this is entirely appropriate - it should be with a descendent of the original author. ****** ****** ****** In his post earlier this week, Bill McKinley queried whether the "letter home" which was the subject of his e-mail might be "off topic" - definitely not. As Bill himself said "It contains quite a few names that may just tie in with others families" - other Rothesay ie Bute families. It also gives others whose ancestors were not named, but also emigrated from Bute to Australia, an idea of conditions not only in Australia, but also by comparison in Bute. I'm glad to see that Bill has since posted "another letter home". I think we can all relate to his sentiments in the introduction re the attitudes of our forebears to leaving items for posterity. Begs the question - How much would have left if they had known then, that we would be digging around now ? Thanks also to everyone who helped Bill out with his M L enquiry - that's what being on these list is all about. ****** ****** ****** 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.