Just wanted to thank you Kath and all the members of this list for the wonderful thing that happened to me today. At your suggestion I wrote to the Manchester Evening News looking for any information about my long-lost and elusive maternal grandfather. To my amazement I received a letter today from a lady who was a bridesmaid at my parent's wedding in Salford in 1945, and whose father was a good friend of my grandfather. Reading her letter brought me to tears, and I am still choking up with emotion as I write this. I will be writing back to her just as soon as I can put pen to paper without tearing up again, and hopefully we will be able to locate the missing parts of my family tree. Kath, you have been such a help and inspiration to me - I can never thank you enough. And all the other members of this list are just as amazing in their generosity and willingness to help. I learn from every posting, and I feel so much closer to my "roots" from reading about the places and people of Manchester. Even though I left when I was only 3 months old, I feel almost like I know the place. Many thanks again from a 'stray' Mancunian, Gail Vancouver Island, BC Canada