Dear new friends Off to a thundering start. (wow). For Cliff Dubery - I will send you the R/K registers in a little while ... today, anyway. Thank you for your attachment which I haven't had time to open yet (the mailbox gets sorted first). For David and Joy Benner: I didn't have anything on BENNER when you wrote, but I immediately leapt to the LDS resource and scored 32 hits in Ireland, the oldest being Agnes from Killeheen (1731 - therefore Daddy must have been fresh off the boat from Rotterdam). There were also Courtmatrix (another brilliant Palatine link), Tralee in Kerry - several - one from Offaly, one from Belfast and a scattering from Elphin (?) Diocese. The rest hailed from lovely old RATHKEALE. If you need more info please ask - but do include some dates, forenames and possible relationships. Places help too. Incidentally, there were 5 Ancestral files too, which means family breakdown data - often invaluable. My own query is addressed to the (seemingly large) cluster of Canadian Palatines who use this marvellous IP mailing facility: I am trying to trace details of my Great Aunt Mary Ann Piper (born about 1864 in Killiheen) and who died in Winnipeg about 1959 (in her early 90s, I'm told by my elderly uncle). How do I start looking for data about that lady, whose derelict little nestbox in my tree needs some sustenance? Next - and last - point. I realise people are very wary of this and I understand fully, but is it possible to attach small ZIP files to the IRL messages? I'm thinking mainly of a bulk despatch of the RK registers for multiple enquirers. I am, of course, willing to send it to individual addresses...it's only about 9.7 kB zipped and contains 5 pages of register data, plus a sample chart of the Jacob Piper cluster (b.1742): an interesting man with a wild family. I think he might be mine, but it's hard to establish the vital link. At all events, I will abide by the Admin decision. Thanks again to Susan for her earlier encouragement. Thanks for listening. I think I'm a lucky man to have found you all. Bye bye for now Terry Pyper __________ Ancestry email please to: <A HREF="mailto:[email protected]"> [email protected]</A>