I will be off the list for a while, since I am leaving tomorrow for the USA and our family reunion next weekend at the Allenberry Resort, Boiling Springs, Pennsylvania, hosted by my American cousins. This will be the 5th reunion we have attended, three in America, one in Victoria BC and one in Leeds, which I organised in 1997. Officially, it's called the Ambler-Stockdill Reunion, since my American cousins all descend from James Henry Ambler of Leeds, who married Fanny Jane Stockdill, a cousin of my Bradford grandfather, at Kennington, south London, in 1885 and who then migrated to the States in 1907. Ambler descendants and Stockdills will be coming from Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kentucky, Florida, Georgia, Connecticut, North Carolina and Colorado, also from Alberta, Canada, and seven of us from England. We have booked the entire Allenberry Resort for next Friday night and I understand the local populace (and police) have been alerted ! I hope also to indulge my keen interest in the American Civil War with a visit to the Gettysburg battlefield. Philadelphia will have the pleasure of our company for a few days beforehand and I want to thank those who responded to my request a while ago for things to do and see there, if I omitted to thank everyone personally. Then it's on to Washington for a few more days before we return to Blighty. So if anyone e-mails me in the meantime, please be patient and I will respond on my return. Oh - and my thanks to everyone who stopped to chat at the York Family History Fair. I enjoyed seeing lots of old friends and it was another great day. Roy Stockdill (Editor, Journal of One-Name Studies) SoG Executive & Director of Projects, FFHS Guild of One-Name Studies:- www.one-name.org Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History:- www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html Never ask a man if he comes from Yorkshire. If he does he will tell you, if he does not why humiliate him? - Canon Sydney Smith