Hello all I felt I had to share this with you, particularly as it reflects well on Peter Goff's Kingsclere website. I was contacted a late last year by a Les GURDLER in Australia, who had found my interest In GIRDLER/GURDLER's on the surnames page of the Kingsclere website. Les is descended from a Richard Andrew GURDLER, the son of Joseph GURDLER, Joseph was born in Kingsclere in 1812, but his children were born in Uxbridge, Middlesex and I am descended from one of Joseph's other children. I had my doubts about a connection because I didn't have a Richard Andrew in any of my research but Les was able to provide copies of a marriage certificate for Richard in Australia which confirmed his parentage, the suspicion is that Richard was born as plain Andrew and that he ran off to Australia for some reason leaving a wife and children in this country. Now that seemed a pretty good result, but in the last week I have been contacted by GIRDLER relatives in New Zealand, this time not directly through the website but via the link to Les in Australia. This is the really "spooky" part of this, one of Les's neighbours is related in some way to the GIRDLER's in NZ and took a copy of information I had sent Les to show them, at this time Les was not aware of a connection. it transpires that the NZ GIRDLER's also originate from Kingsclere and we are all distantly related. The moral of this tale is to make sure your names are listed on the Kingsclere website as it can lead to the most surprising discoveries. Regards Colin Harris --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.458 / Virus Database: 257 - Release Date: 24/02/2003