Geoff Nicholson wrote: > I am more than a little puzzled at how Susan's message came > through to you - and you have answered it - although it hasn't yet > reached me. Cyberspace must be a lot thinner over Gateshead than > it is over Washington! Perhaps the message got lost in a > hailstorm. Geoff Just the vagaries of e-mail transmission and/or delays at Rootsweb. I often see posts arriving out of sequence - we all do from time to time - so it isn't unusual for replies to arrive before the query. On one list a query of mine took 23 hours to appear in my inbox, and in the meantime I'd seen numerous responses and even received my own thank you note back in my inbox. Brian -- Brian Pears (Joint List Admin - NORTHUMBRIA Mailing List)