My friends - I have just returned from a short trip out of town(which produced two 100 year old church pews which my wife will be reworking as antiques), and am dropping by to let you know that I have another segment in our continuing series of JP land grants files ready for distribution. This file is a rather small one, and covers all of the surnames which begin with the letter "I" (Eye). Specifically, the surnames included in this file are: Irvin, Irvine, Ingram, Isle, Isbell, Irby, Imes and Inman. As I have said before, we have reached the stage in this series that all that remains are various small pockets of grants which have not heretofore been offered, and I have been working on those recently. Subscribers to the JP List and the county lists which I host can obtain a copy of this file by sending a request directly to me(not to the List, please). Please specify *File LG-833*. The file is available in both Plain Text and Adobe Acrobat PDF format. I will send the file as a plain text attachment to an e-mail message unless PDF is requested. If attachments are not workable, the file can also be transmitted in the body of an e-mail message, although this will often skew the columnar alignments. If this form of transmission is required, please specify that you need the file as a *straight e-mail message*. The complete file will be sent. Time constraints do not permit me to go into the file and extract data about individual surnames. The descriptions of other land grants files which are available to our subscribers are shown on the JP Land Grants web site, located here: www.rootsweb.com/~kygraves/JPGrants.htm Non-subscriber/PML requests will be filled only if time permits. On another matter, and as an FYI - I have now received 15 additional mailing tubes for the Proctor and Calloway original grantee maps. I have about 24 order still outstanding, and I am told that I should be able to get the remaining tubes from my supplier on Monday. I will continue to send these map copies out just as rapidly as I can get mailing tubes. I apologize for the small delay in some cases, but I have apparently overpowered the ability of the suppliers here to keep these mailing tubes in stock. If I were to do it over, I would have ordered 100 tubes directly from a manufacturer and had them shipped straight to me. In this case, however, I underestimated the demand for these maps. I have had over 200 inquiries about them, with over 100 actual orders coming in. Maps are always popular with genealogists - especially older ones, or landowner/grantee maps - and this experience has certainly reinforced that basic fact. -B ==============================================================================