Welcome to Jim, Alfred Lavigne and T. Kellythorn who have joined this week. If you haven't already contributed, we hope to hear from you soon. ****** ****** ****** I suspect most of us have used http://www.old-maps.co.uk/ to view our areas of interest as they were back in the mid 1800's. Often the old map does not have a road name where one's ancestors lived, hence when one is working from overseas, a modern map is needed to hopefully help out. Many posts to the Genealogical mailing lists recommend http://www.streetmap.co.uk/ as a source of current locations, however I have on occasion had difficulty getting down to a small enough map to find street names at this site. The alternative map site http://uk2.multimap.com/ seems to give the street names for a larger percentage of the UK including Scotland. This site also has aerial photos, although from my experience, these are only of new developments, ever the cynic - probably paid for by the promoting Real Estate companies. ****** ****** ****** Spotted on the Ayrshire list ... "Like anyone else with relatives from the Isle of Arran it is worth checking the Poor Applications at Ardrossan I've found many Arran born folks in the poor applications there as well as many Irish incomers." and on the Renfrew list ... "Are you aware of "Password Central"? It's part of RootsWeb, and simply by typing in your email address, RootsWeb will send you a list of all mailing lists you are subscribed to : http://passwordcentral.rootsweb.com/ " ****** ****** ****** 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.