Cyndi Howells wrote..... >>How about a list of ethnic and locality specific resources?<< PARDON a cynical old Brit butting in, but my immediate reaction on reading the start of Cyndi'a message was to wonder what she meant by "locality specific resources". It's not a very user-friendly phrase, is it? Then looking at the list of websites, I realised she meant sources relating to different countries. I hope Cyndi and everyone else on the list will take this in the spirit I mean it, but we Brits do cringe ever so slightly sometimes at this kind of American pseudo-Havard business jargon and we prefer good old-fashioned English! In fact, there is a popular campaign here supported by lots of famous people and consumer organisations called the "Campaign for Plain English". What's wrong with "national" for "locality specific"? >>Genealogy Benelux Home Page http://www.ufsia.ac.be/genealogy/<< I wonder how many folks are poring over their international atlases trying to find a country called Benelux? For those who are not familiar with it, it 's an acronym or collective name for Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, the three countries that founded the core of the European Economic Community. Roy Stockdill Editor, The Journal of One-Name Studies The Stockdill Family History Society (Guild of One-Name Studies, FedFHS) STOCKDILL PREST YELLOW BOLTON WORSNOP GIBSON MIDGLEY BRACEWELL SHACKLETON BRADLEY MOODY in Yorkshire North & West Ridings MEAD YOUNG in Somerset, Wiltshire & Gloucestershire Web page of the Stockdill Family History Society:- http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/roystock ”Never ask a man if he comes from Yorkshire. If he does he will tell you. If he does not, why humiliate him?" - Canon Sydney Smith (scholar and humorist 1771-1845)