This is just to repost my interest in SCOON families in the Borders, but also to say that I have now set up a formal one name study for the name (GOONS #5642). BMD extracts for the name can be found at _www.one-name.org/archives/scoon.html_ (http://www.one-name.org/archives/scoon.html) and additional data on my own site at _www.donjgrant.me.uk/schp.html_ (http://www.donjgrant.me.uk/schp.html) . The latter includes a 'Scoon Index' which is being built to try to track the SCOONs of Scottish origin through the available census records and, where possible, before and after that. The SCOONs had a major presence in the Borders (probably over half the worldwide population c 1800), particularly round Hawick, Canonbie and Langholm, until the first half of the nineteenth century when many emigrated and others moved into the cities or other parts of the UK. The Scoon Index tries to track this. If you have SCOONs in your tree, I would be very pleased to hear from you with any comments or queries you may have. Donald Grant