Geoffery - I have sent you an email which has bounced. The message I sent to the list has not (yet) bounced back to me from your address though I suspect it will. In the remote chance that you are still getting list messages, this is the message on the failure note. It looks like you have ISP problems <geoffrey.everest@free.fr>: Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1) I am probably wasting my time in sending this to the list as I don't think Geoffery will recieve it and I apologise to everyone else for having to send it to the list 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

Just to thank one and all - and especially Helen - I seem to have come back to life albeit perhaps temporarily but only time will tell. Clumsy sentence. I never really liked computers, but are useful, and sometimes fun. Now I'm downhearted - but on the other hand you find your real friends when the going gets tough. Thanks to all Geoff