James, there is a lot of information out there about researching in the UK. I had the best luck by joining one of the county lists on GENUKI for the areas that I knew my ancestors were from. They were very willing to help out with look-ups and getting copies made, etc. One nice man even found me a B&B to stay in while over there researching last year and also took me to dinner! Anyway, the best thing to do is to go to this site: http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/ You can follow the links to various places and just have a great old time with it. If you don't know exactly which town your family came from in Yorkshire it will be a little more difficult narrowing down the divisions in that county to decide which list to join. So far as I know I don't know if there is another county in England that has been divided up into"Ridings" the way Yorkshire has! It is confusing. Anyway, hope this helps you. I haven't done any Scottish research, though have travelled there a lot. The sad part is that they don't have any on-line censuses that I know about in England so you pretty much need to post your family information on one of the county lists and see what happens, sort of like in Morgan Co. Good luck, and if you run into any Valantines back there let me know! Carol Valantine Dugger