This is a date for your diary... September is to be "Archives Awareness Month" and on Saturday September 27th the Dorset Record Office will be having an Open Day, with special displays and tours behind the scenes. It will run from 10.30-3.30pm. I know quite a lot of people subscribed to this and the other Dorset mailing lists went to the RO's 10th Birthday Open Day two years ago and had a very good day. It is very interesting to go 'behind the scenes'. I don't think I will be able to make this as we seem to be spending every Saturday in the autumn touring various Universities with our eldest daughter, but I will keep you posted with news about this Open Day as and when I receive it. Helen Helen Jones, Weymouth, Dorset http://www.melcombe.freeserve.co.uk List Admin Rootsweb Eng Dorset & Scammell Lists, and British Genealogy Eng-Dorset, Surnames & Forenames list