AFTER FRUITLESSLY SEARCHING MAPS, UK LINKS AND OTHER GENWEBS I FINALLY POSTED A QUERY ON THE UK CURIOUSFOX SITE AND RECEIVED AN OBVIOUS / BRILLIANT THEORY FROM A WOMAN NAMED ROSANNE THE MYTHIC AND MISSING "VISTER" IS JUST A TYPO THE ACTUAL WORD INTENDED IS "ULSTER" HOW OBVIOUS, HOW SIMPLE MINDED I FEEL! SO, JUST IN CASE THERE ARE ANY OTHERS OUT THERE DRIVING THEMSELVES ROUND THE BEND, I AM POSTING THIS THEORY AND REMOVING "VISTER" AS THE POSSIBLE "VILLAGE" FROM WHENCE MY IMMIGRANT ANCESTOR, GEO BOYD, EMBARKED, SO TO SPEAK. BEV