A few co-incidences have turned up which might amuse fellow-listers! 1. The City of Lincoln, England, is twinned with Neustadt-an-der-Rhinestrasse - in the heart of the Palatine emigration country. (OK, so what ?) 2. I grew up in Lincoln. My mother, Esther Florence Wagstaffe (nee Barkman) b.5.5.1901 and her sister Bessie Marion Cox (nee Barkman) b. 23 Nov 1895, both left the farm in Tuogh, Adare in the 1920s. Eventually they BOTH moved to Lincoln/Lincolnshire with their husbands. I still visit my family home in Lincoln often, (and Adare sometimes too). 3. I've not heard of MANY Palatine researchers in England at all (though there are some very good ones - on LeGear and Teskey especially!). 4. Terry Pyper, whom we've just met on this site, says also that his parent/grandparents farmed in Ireland. 5. And Terry, I see you now live in ................. LINCOLNSHIRE, UK ?????? I'll Email you privately, Terry, and hope we can get on the phone! Regards Di Mitchell Cheshire, England