Welcome to Jean Campbell and Gordon Taylor who have joined this week. If you haven't already contributed, we hope to hear from you soon. ****** ****** ****** Thanks to those who have or are about to contribute to the Naming Conventions / patterns thread. As a means of tracing earlier generations the use of the maternal maiden name as a second surname is useful, however a note of caution - in many of the larger Victorian era families the later children were often named after one of the godparents in hopes of later generosity. >From my experience, the investigation of the source of these second names is more often frustrating than enlightening. ****** ****** ****** Genealogy tutorials - here is a snippet from the latest RootsWeb Review Vol3 No24 ROOTSWEB'S GUIDE TO TRACING FAMILY TREES http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/ 30 interactive genealogy lessons with links to resources at RootsWeb and elsewhere on the Internet. *Not just for beginners* ****** ****** ****** Feel free to join in and present your own items. Peter Cook [email protected] List owner and Co-host with Barbara < [email protected] > of the ButeshireGenWeb mailing list. List owner of the SCT-RENFREW and SCT-ARGYLL mailing lists.