It's the 'Old Crocks Race' on Sunday so we're off to view it from Mother's refurbished balcony which overlooks the route. Well, it's not a race but our name for the London/Brighton Veteran Car Run. Before I go, I've one or two things to pass on. I've taken ancestry.com up on a 14 day free trial of their predominantly US data and found a fair few new K/NIBB/S as well as more details re known ones. I've written off-list to interested 'family'. Within 24 hours of writing to 6 complete strangers, I had answers back from all of them! One in Canada was able to supply the parents names of William Alfred KNIBBS who died in WW1 and is commemorated on our Roll of Honour. They were Thomas and Caroline nee GOODWIN. In the same post, I received a list of KNIBBS who died in Ontario from a researcher who is kindly helping me with original settlers there. A Caroline was on it and doubtless one and the same. Another was in reply to a find re a Deborah KNIBBS marrying William WELCHMAN at the British Embassy in Paris. In this case, I've been given the name of someone who has researched that family in depth so am hoping to make progress. If a mindblowing theory of mine is proved to be correct, I will be writing to several of you re a connection to this couple - and the previous item no less. Yet another referred me to the website which displays the 1870 Michigan census re details of Henry KNIBBS and family there, 'Libbie' having married into his family. Henry subsequently remarried so I thought I'd use the site to search for his bride to be. I thought I'd found her but for her age which doesn't agree with her being mother of the children allocated to the second marriage. But then was Henry really 72 when tha last of them was born? Yet to prove/disprove. By the way, we're still linked to the first item, theory-wise that is. Number 4 has referred me to her father who can hopefully confirm a Claude's stepfather's first name whose KNIBBS surname became his by choice. Now I have confirmation he was a Henry and am following up his mother's details. >From KNIBBS to KNIBB. Does this mean anything to anyone? From the American Genealogical Biographical Index re Isaiah KNIBB - Boardman gen, Eng. Anc. of Sam. Boreman, Wethersfield [et. al.] By Charlotte Goldthwaite. Hartford, Ct, 1895. (13, 778p.):128 The BOREMAN family website regret they can't help me. There is obviously a book by Charlotte GOLDTHWAITE listing families (with perhaps some family trees) and this could be of great interest as Isaiah is a descendant of the clockmakers. I was impressed with the detail in the Connecticut death records. From information there, the USSSDI and a couple of directories, I've put together a provisional chart for some KNIBBS of great longevity. Trouble is, I don't know where they came from nor anyone currently researching this line but with help from those willing ancestry.com contributors, perhaps it won't be long before I'm reporting a success story. Oh yes, another award as come the way of the website and is reported on What's New/Latest page along with details of a couple of new helpers whom I've already mentioned on list. Is anyone else subscribing to Ancestry.com and does their subscription extend to the census and/or UK data? I'd be glad to know if they think it's worthwhile. And remember last week when I mentioned K/NIBB/S who'd subscribed to books and were listed in Directories? - they are at Ancestry.com HXR323? That's the number plate of 'Genevieve' the eponymous car of the old film with Larry ADLER's mouth organ playing the soundtrack. With facts like these to hand, perhaps I should set a trivia quiz, starting with whose autobiography was entitled 'It ain't necessarily so'. Answer herein and in today's Daily Telegraph! bfn Alan List Administrator and host at <A HREF="http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~knibbetc/">THE K/NIBB/S ONE NAME STUDY website</A> Did you know? Earlier postings to the list are archived at http://archiver.rootsweb.com/KNIBB-L/ Please follow log-on instructions when you first visit!