I am a new subscriber. My surname research is LITTLE It seems to me that Liddel Waters (river) in Scotland is such a close match phonetically to Little that it is a good possibility that they are variations of the same name. Does anyone know if this has been proven? Did it occur in a certain period of history? Is there any good research done on this? If anyone is interested and does not know this already, the National Library of Scotland site (nls.com) has a "Maps" section with all sorts of old maps available for anyone to look at......literally tons of them for the Borders region......Roxburghshire is where I was looking in particularly. Also there are Roy's Military maps; harder to look at but extremely detailed......all from the 1600-1700 range. Worth a look at the site if you've not done so previously. I apologize if I've duplicated material that has come across before :) Jeanne _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live™: Keep your life in sync. http://windowslive.com/howitworks?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t1_allup_howitworks_022009