Hiy'all It's so lovely to see business continuing as usual in the List department, despite my continuing interjections. You can - or not - just save them and read at your leisure. Good to hear from Marilyn, "lurking" Hazel, Barb (I WILL write in response to your good offer of copy), Jean (I looked up the David MYE, which Susan pointed out at the 1715 Muster - his name is also included earlier on the Board of Trade List for 3 May 1709, at St Catherine's below London, as David MEY with wife. On both the 1715 and the 1720 lists there is an Apolonia Hebenhorne and by the time of the Religious Census in 1766, there is an Aeneas Heffernan in Rathkeale. My father also spoke of a Heavenor family in that area in his youth). I note too that another "lurker", Margot (Canada) is a Sparling. Two members of my ancestral brood (John & William Piper) were lurking witnesses at Sparling weddings in Adare in 1826. What a fine, cosy world we genealogy trackers inhabit. Granny McD doesn't mention the names she's searching for - perhaps I missed them earlier, Mary? I too am having fun. The comments from Chris on the official language merits some thought. German as the dominant language in the United States would have been very strange, indeed. I suppose, following a not-too-different - if sombre - thread (since painful to contemplate, but why shouldn't we mention these things?) my Palatine Grandfather fighting on the Somme and beyond in the First War could easily have been facing his distant kin at the Front in anger - brother George was killed by Turkish forces in Iraq in 1916. No rumours - I have the War Diary/Intelligence Report. But I mustn't spoil the mellow mood. You see, Admin? I am paying attention. Terry Pyper (Lincs UK)