Hi again Kathy, Let me return the compliment (you praised my recommendation of the Derry Journal online). Pensear is an excellent source and you are right to recommend it to everyone. The OAP/Census records which it mines proved to be of the utmost significance to me. I started genealogy about seven years ago searching for my unusual Christian name and had no success until a lovely lady and fellow researcher from Texas was in her FHC browsing through one of the OAP/ Census microfilms that covered a haystack of parishes, including Macosquin, when she stumbled across my great grandfather looking for his presence in the 1851 census. He gave not only his father's name, which I already knew, but also his mother's name, which I did not have, including her maiden name - which is quite unusual in these records - and she was a Mary Boyd! Quest resolved!! Best wishes for the new year, Boyd Ray, You (and others) may find this web site useful in your research. http://www.pensear.org/main.php It's a sort of backhanded way of getting information from the 1841 and 1851 census returns, which no longer exist. If your ancestor was still living, and old enough by the time the Old Age Pension Act was introduced in 1908, he or she may have applied for a pension. The only way to confirm a person's age at that time was for the pension office to do a lookup in the 1841 or 1851 census, which still existed in 1908. This site allows a quick lookup of names, and you might find an ancestor if you're lucky. The cost to receive the information, which might list all household members, is only 1 pound, and you get it quickly. I looked briefly and saw many HASSONs in Londonderry, including a couple of Matildas. Kathy Judge Nemaric Researching JUDGE, BROWN, PHILIPS, KEENAN in Derry