--Re Old headstones. Plenty of them in the graveyards around here, Drumholm, Killymard, The Old Abbey, Carn, and these are just some examples around my area. I found a headstone dating from 1611 in Killymard and it is was perfectly legible, they date back in these graveyards to the 16/17/ and 1800s. Wonder where the idea came from that we were a third world country before the EU, I grew up here in Donegal and I and my family are still here, we were always very much "first world" and we were not rich either just an average family, we certainly never considered ourselves to be like the starving people in the third world countries of today. Incidentally, I had lunch with Lindel and Muriel in Letterkenny last week and we had a lovely time, Lindel is coming over to visit on Friday and I am meeting her again, it was a wonderful experience to meet her. She is having a great time here. The only gripe I would have about headstones is the fact that so little information is on most of them, not even the name of the Townland. I think that a wife's maiden name should be recorded, I have got photos of gravestones from friends in Canada and America and they are much more detailed and sometimes it is the only way that people can accurately trace their family who emigrated as the records may not be so good at home in Ireland. Margaret