Jill, We were talking about the ISTG the other day; and just received the following tonight. David RootsWeb Review: RootsWeb's Weekly E-zine Vol. 6, No. 5, 29 January 2003, Circulation: 1,023,552 (c) 1998-2003 RootsWeb.com, Inc. http://www.rootsweb.com/ Editor: Myra Vanderpool Gormley, Certified Genealogist Editor-RWR@rootsweb.com Certification: http://www.bcgcertification.org/certification/ 1. News and Notes: ------------------ 1a. The Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild (ISTG), one of the several hosted volunteer projects at RootsWeb, announces the addition of maritime news articles excerpted from Irish newspapers, dating from 1700-1912. These articles have been contributed primarily to ISTG by Dennis Ahern, with some contributions by Cathy Joynt Labath and Alison Causton. The names of ships and surnames mentioned in the articles are indexed. Visit Irish Maritime News Articles by starting here: http://istg.rootsweb.com/newsarticles/ireland1700_1849.html Additional maritime newspaper articles, dating from the 1700s to 1940 and listed by year, ship name, or article subject are available at: http://istg.rootsweb.com/newsarticles/newsarticles.html * * *