Hello everyone who replied to my posting. It is nice to know that you are there. If the listowner does not mind, I wonder if we all did a posting about our HOUGHTON's and see if anyone can connect. We would all have gathered information that we have found does not connect to our own family trees, so by posting them, and our brickwalls, we may be able to make some of them come tumbling down. What do you think? I have two major brickwalls one in Scotland and my HOUGHTON connection. I recently wrote to everyone with the name HOUGHTON in Lutterworth, Leicestershire and have received a few answers. None of them seem to be the same line, but I could post them to the list and see if anyone else can identify them as their own. It was a costly exercise by the time I added an addressed envelope, an IRC and postage from Australia but as I was desperate it was worth it (about $30 Australian). What say you? Annette in Dubbo NSW