Dear fellow listers, I will not tediously copy below any of the Digest messages I get, but would you PLEASE not repeat all that has gone before when you post--just the snippet necessary to understand your post. If you have Digest (which I need), you cannot "just delete." You have to scroll through the whole thing to read messages 2 and 3 and 4 and etc. I appreciated the remarks on religion I got today. Wish we would all take the time to state religion of the people we are researching because it is so important to the paths we take. Obviously all Christians in western Europe were originally Roman Catholic, but the paths by which some changed are varied and intricate. My McCartys (McCarthy) in Cork city must have married a female Winspeare (Yorkshire name) and converted to Church of Ireland some time in the 18th c or earlier as they baptized each child First Name Winspeare McCarty in Christchurch Cathedral for as many generations as they lived there. Even my Foleys, RC until at least 1842, converted at some point, possibly in Kerry, and then produced several generations of C of I ministers. These are the ones with Gaelic names. On the other hand, a Clarke widow (of a minister!) in the family ran off to Detroit, MI, ca. 1905, was rebaptized as a Roman Catholic, and married Mr. O'Gorman. Even had her children from the first marriage rebaptized. You can never be sure what people will do. Elizabeth W. Knowlto