Hi All I am sorry that I have been a little quiet recently, but life has been somewhat more hectic than usual the last few weeks, but finally I have worked my way through the long list of things I *had* to do. Oh yes and then I was invited by findmypast to take part in a beta test of the 1911 website, and who could turn down an invitation like that? Luckily, although it was confined to only a few counties it did include Gloucestershire (including much of Bristol), so I was able to find my parents and grandparents, and three out of the four sets of great-grandparents who were still living. The McGUIRKs have perhaps been mis-indexed as they did evade me. And also a couple of great-great-grandparents who had survived to 1911, both in their 80s. This was a nice Christmas present! Anyway hopefully I will be able to catch up again now, and anyone waiting for a reply from me should get one... But for now I would like to thank you all for your helpful, interesting and useful postings over the last year and a *BIG* thank you to the List Admin for all their hard work in keeping the List running smoothly (being one I do know what this involves!). Finally my Christmas Greetings to you are at: www.rowberry.org/xmas08.html Have a good one! Kind regards Polly