Nneka X wrote: >.... a list >of plantations and their owners...I > thought there was a registry of some sort in London. ... http://catalogue.pro.gov.uk/ Click on browse Browse from reference T71/493 Click on the - sign on the left of T71/493 to expose the rest of the list of items for St Vincent. Material is held at National Archives, Kew, London - one needs identification to get a reader's ticket, and they demand new readers go on a tour. Yesterday it was taking about 35 minutes to fetch requests. One can have at any one time: number of items issued for looking at: 1 number of items being fetched : 3 number of items being worked on, or fetched, or held ready for looking at: 21 If the St Vincent registers are like the 1817 Jamaican one I was handling yesterday (enormous falling-apart book), scanning would be required for copying, at £1.60 (I think he said) a page. Supervised free digital photography (own camera - no flash) was recommended as an alternative.