Hello Friends ***START HERE*** The Switzer family being, to all intents, the most eminent of the Palatine families to settle in Limerick (with an abundance of documentation, more than obvious wealth and what the French call 'piston' - i.e. contacts), I have been swanning along in the mistaken belief that my family was untainted with such seigneurial froth. Middle-name smug, me. Unpalatinely. Recently, however, a very kind Lyn Vincent from down-under (N.S. Wales) did me some look-ups in Griffith's Valuation and amongst the finds was a "Rola Piper" with a holding in Tuogh, Adare. Now, whilst I accept that some pretty scatty forenames were preferred by our ancestors (Absalom, Aeneas and such - God, I've probably offended somebody else now), Rola was clearly not the short version of Savonarola (a novel written by Benjamin Disraeli - the Harold Robbins of the 19th C.). So - misprint? A familysearch hit brought me Joseph Piper m. Rhoda Switzer in Adare on 12 Oct 1830. Since I can find nothing on his birth or death, nor any apparent issue, I was led to assume that G (to the power 3) Uncle Joe died and his widow took over the property. Has anyone anything on Joseph - he just might be a nephew of my GGF Richard Piper, you see? ***END HERE*** Right, that's the business side over - just to show I'm serious. Now to the usual daily parcel of drivel. (Sorry, Susan: perhaps when Liz gets our Pally site up and running, we could have a Small-Ads tab for back-office trivia such as mine). Anyway, we're all on first-name terms as of birthright and gossip does foster closer affinities. I'm told. Hazel - I AM the Boston Stump. The world's software clearing-house. The download catchment area for the Western hemisphere. WAS in Lincolnshire, Hazel. Nuff said, I think. Liz - about how Java works. You get some beans and mash them up (look, this boy's been around, OK), then you get a pot....do I have to spell it out for a fellow night-owl? Jacqui (when you get up): I have a bone to pick. I did not FIB. Did not. I said the CORNEIL file was 62 pages, you claimed I'd said 64, although it was actually 78. Got news for you, sister. I first read it in February, then again yesterday morning. You got there later - get my drift? You may recall that the Palatines were very devoted to the "federbett" culture; when they were not ploughing, they were propagating. Since my look-up and your download, the FAMILY had GROWN. OK? Anyway, we'll talk more later - I'm in Bombay now on a stopover. The flight to Talbot has been delayed, but the tea here is first-class and will do for the time being. (The historian Farrar observed in his History of Limerick (1780) that the Palatines 'sleep between two beds' - I think he was trying to tell us something.) On another tack: I like to test the temperature of our Listers from time to time and, frankly, I am a little concerned about good ol' Walt's 'rellies' and Carole's 'ruckles'. Have they seen someone about this, do you think? Are they up to the rigours of a reunion? Keep an eye peeled, friends. Now we've got all of these fine people back to the fireside (even spilling out to the kitchen - did Admin. say over 150 subscribers now?), we have to keep them here. Lost Jacqui, though, I fear. Ho-hum. Big mouth. Alberta, hello. I do have some rather more charitable things to say about the superb IPA, but I have some 'liberation' chores to deal with for the moment and will return to my Java-stained keyboard a bit later this (British) evening. Do stay. I will have a more sober face then. Switzer - hna. Oh, god. Terry (now boarding for Victoria). PS When I get back I propose to pop round to my good friend Cyndi's for a prowl. This Mailing List is glorious fun. And we've got pull now. Hi, hunkess - Going Live, I presume...we're all with you. And hi the benevolent Chairman in Arizona (or does ChairMAN rank with 'colonies' in the PC department?) Bye bye