Good afternoon all, Recently I started indexing Blacksmiths. This I did not advertise the website as I already have about 2 thousand names from the Devon 1851 census and Hampshire census to index. takes a lot of work and as I work full time - it is done after hours and on weekends. However, someone has leaked the news before I was ready and I am now getting many emails complaining that they can't open the Hampshire Link. The link is working but there is only a couple of names in it at this stage. Please feel free to send me your ancestors information and I'll happily add them to the index - as soon as I possibly can. When the lists become too large I may look at making separate website for each Smith's Trade. Please read the long message before sending your information. Looking forward to hearing from you. Regards Ann in Perth, Western Australia. **************************************************************************************************************************************** Hello Listers - Apologies to those who will see this repeated - on other lists. I have commenced an index called "Blacksmiths and Related Trades". This is available to browse on a Rootsweb Freepages site. I commenced the index with my own ancestors Thomas Briggs and Thomas Richards who were Blacksmiths, and lived in Blue Town and Sheerness Kent, along with William Baskett (Leading Shipwright) from the Isle of Wight and Sheerness...and its grown from there. A very kind person has already given me a list of blacksmiths from Devon (1851 Census) and these are currently being indexed. This site is still under construction and the design of the homepage will change from time to time as the site grows.... as will the way in which the surnames have been indexed. I may even end up with a different website for each area of Smithing but for the moment, The Blacksmiths Index will cover all. I am still looking for the appropriate gif.images to place on the links for each trade, so for the moment all links have the same image. I appreciate any names, associated / interesting stories about Blacksmiths, cartwrights,wheelwrights,shipwrights etc. from any County in England, Scotland and Wales to be included to this index. I am also happy to include Smiths from other European countries as many of our ancestors migrated between the UK and other countries, taking their trade with them. If you wish to send your ancestors details to be included on the website, please send their information in an easy to read style, eg: dot form. SURNAME: GIVENNAME: TRADE: BORN: DIED: WIFE: WORK PLACE: etc.etc.etc. please be specific about which County you wish your ancestor to be placed in. I am not familiar with all UK towns (I live down under), and as I work full time I'd rather not have to look up a map to find out which county a certain town belongs to. In the meantime I sincerely thank all those who have taken such an interest in my website and who have been so kind as to send me their ancestors details. Best wishes and TIA Ann in Australia tristar@mydesk.net.au Mad, mad person - indexing Smiths in general: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~blacksmiths