The following should be of interest to you, if you can trace your ancestors to the Minorcans that settled in Florida, especially the Mestre/Mestra families, which later anglized their surname to Masters. The Minorcans can be found under Balearic Islands. I explored the site and found it very interesting. Dave Masters ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lorine McGinnis Schulze" Sent: Saturday, October 26, 2002 6:54 AM Subject: MINORCANS TO FLORIDA & your site Hello, I have been reading your pages on Minorcans and thought you would be interested in the following new database I have online. If you think it is of interest to your visitors, please feel free to link to any or all of the URLs given for each set of records. Thanks to the hard work of Lucie Servole Myers, I have an original research project reconstructing names of colonists of Greek, Italian, Minorcan and Turkish origins to Florida in May 1768. Eight ships sailed under the direction of Andrew Turnbull. Lucie has reconstructed the names of 431 passengers on board the 8 ships. The ships are organized in the following immigrant groups: Passengers from Spain http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/toflaspain.shtml Passengers from Greece http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/toflagreece.shtml Passengers from Corsica http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/toflacorsica.shtml Passengers from Canary Islands http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/toflacanary.shtml Passengers from Italy http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/toflaitaly.shtml Passengers from Balearic Islands http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/toflabalearic.shtml Lorine Lorine McGinnis Schulze Lorine McGinnis Schulze -- * The Olive Tree Genealogy http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ * Past Voices:Letters Home http://pastvoices.com/ * USA Genealogy http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/usa_genealogy/ * My Family Branches http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~myfamilybranches/ otg@csolve.net or olivetreegen@netscape.net