Alanna i dont think you asked a stupid question, we are all amateur researchers, and a little bit of anything in my book is good. Never give up though!! Margaret ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alanna L Scanlon" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2011 10:27 PM Subject: Re: [IRL-CLARE] NSW shiplists online Margaret, there are so many new pieces of information opening up. I did know that my father worked on board ships before he met my mother. Suddenly, a manifast showed up on ancestry.com that showed him as an employee. Nothing that I would ever need, but it was my father's name!! The only time I ever "acted up" was when some snotnosed kid dared to make fun of my father! I let the whole 64 student class and the nun understand I in a loud voice would not allow that creep to talk about my father. Little quiet reserve me could speak up. I knew some things about his mother and all I did was to let everyone know about it. Then I went back to being little ladylike pleasant me. I can talk about my father, but not creeps. I am NO professional, am just a little lady whose researching ability comes from my mother's paternal side with a bit from her mother. I Always try to encourage newbies or people who do not know how to start the research. Now back to quietly researching Clare and the USA and again no longer doing Tasmania, Have to remember I am a non-professional and therefore I have to remember not to ask stupid questions.