For those with Australian connections - ancestry.com is to release 8.9 million names of passengers and crew who arrived in NSW as free settlers between 1826 and 1922. Collection will be launched this Wednesday. I have access to ancestry but won't be able to do any look ups until next week at earliest. I'll be curious to see how much info the records will obtain not that I have any that earlier , my family came out in 1963. Angela ( thanks to the 35 people who have emailed tonight - I appreciate all your kind words and prayers) Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig. All mail scanned with AVAST 2008 No trees were killed in the sending of this message, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced