Welcome to Ross Holmes who has joined this week. If you haven't already contributed, we hope to hear from you soon. ****** ****** ****** Looking over the messages for last week, its nice to see Charles McCormick has found another cousin, or should I say the cousin found Charles. By the time I had gone through the stack of e-mails that piled up while we were away, I was thinking we need to go away more often - found 4 new cousins for our lines. Spare a thought for the way our ancestor's communicated - back in the 19C it would take up to 3 months for letters to get from the UK to Australia, goodness knows how long from Canada (where one new cousin resides) to Australia - the suggestion of a system that allowed daily (or faster) exchange of written communications would probably just about have qualified as witchcraft certainly supernatural. Well, must get back to preparing some more Gedcom's - a lot easier than printing the info out to send out by snail mail - and saves a few trees! ****** ****** ****** Feel free to join in and present your own items. Peter Cook cookfmly@bigpond.com List maintainer and Co-host with Barbara < babrown12@optonline.net > of the ButeshireGenWeb mailing list.