After some time, I have finally got around to emailing Arthur Barker who put an offer in a 2001 Journal issue relating to 1803 inhabitants of Calbourne. But the email address given is no longer valid. I wonder if Arthur is on the list, could he contact me, or if anyone knows of a current email address if they could pass it on. Regards James Butler

You will find that the County of Hampshire & the Isle of Wight is included. http://freereg.rootsweb.com/faq/xamplesearch.htm This is from the FreeREG transcribers list, WOW! http://freereg.rootsweb.com/ "Just in case you did not see it on the website, we passed the five million record mark at the last update. Well done. FreeREG is growing very fast now. Also, in the very near future we will be adding more and faster servers because we are handling more than 15,000 searches a day, as shown by the new statistics page on the website. The website has now reached a critical size, especially for certain counties, where useful searches take place. As a result more people use FreeREG and now contribute to the project. We are getting a regular supply of new transcribers and donated transcriptions, which is accelerating the rate at which the database grows. Best Wishes to you all, Eric FreeREG Executive"