Hello all, Over the past couple of years we have built up a substantial collection of Lovelock family trees and fragments, and I thought it would be interesting to try to get some measure of how far we've got in connecting up all the Lovelocks for whom we have records into one or other of these trees. As a start I took a look at the "Lovelocks in Wiltshire" file, since a lot of the tree building activity has focused on Wiltshire. Following are some very approximate statistics indicating how far we've got in connecting the records in this file into one or other of the Wiltshire trees. As with all statistics the actual numbers shouldn't be taken too seriously, because my methodology was very rudimentary. Note that the figures were derived from the "unexpurgated" Lovelocks in Wiltshire file, which differs from that on the Web site in that it contains records for some individuals who may still be living. The Lovelocks in Wiltshire file contains about 2065 records altogether. This includes some duplicates (records from different sources) and some events which are not baptisms, marriages or burials (for example wills, apprenticeships). Following an initiative started by Robert Sterry, events related to the Lieflock Line (L), the Lyneham Tree (Ly) and the Hampshire Tree (HL) (now called the Tangley Tree) have been flagged in the file; if one eliminates such events, one is left with about 1210 events. If one now eliminates events associated with the other trees listed in the table of Wiltshire Lovelock Trees, http://perso.numericable.fr/~lovjames/family-history/lovelock/wilts-frags.html one is left with about 865 events. Eliminating duplicate events, wills and apprenticeships this is reduced to about 750 events. Finally, there are a few Wiltshire fragments which are not included in the table referred to above, but are listed on the page of "Early Lovelock Fragments" http://perso.numericable.fr/~lovjames/family-history/lovelock/frags-history.html (these include fragments for Aldbourne, Chippenham, Marlborough, as well as some additional fragments for Gt Bedwyn, Burbage, and Ramsbury). Eliminating events included in these fragments leaves about 650 events which have not yet been associated with any of the trees or fragments included on the Web site. So for the case of Wiltshire, we have made very good progress in connecting up individuals into trees, but we've still got 650-750 events (depending on whether or not one includes the small fragments) which have not yet been connected to a Lovelock family tree, so we still have plenty of work to do! For other counties I would expect that we're not as far advanced as for Wiltshire. James