I stumbled across <http://reference.info.com> today. Just type in a name (Stronsay or Graemsay for example) and it produces a webpage with handy information and lots of relevant links. I've just added a link to it on the Stronsay Development Trust website at <http://www.orkneycommunities.co.uk/SDT> And before anyone asks I've no connection, financial or otherwise, with reference.info.com <g> -- Bruce Fletcher Stronsay, Orkney <www.stronsay.co.uk/claremont> "Do you get virgin wool from ugly sheep?"
Bruce Fletcher (Stronsay) wrote: > I stumbled across <http://reference.info.com> today. Just type in a name > (Stronsay or Graemsay for example) and it produces a webpage with handy > information and lots of relevant links. I've just added a link to it on > the Stronsay Development Trust website at > <http://www.orkneycommunities.co.uk/SDT> > And before anyone asks I've no connection, financial or otherwise, with > reference.info.com <g> Yes, it looks as if it could be a useful site, Bruce. Incidentally, on a test run I typed in "Birsay" and the site came up with a variety of relevant results. However, it did ask, "Are you looking for Birsay, Saskatchewan?" Well, I wasn't (largely because I didn't know it existed), but here's a little challenge for you North American Orcadia listers: how many Orcadian place-names can you find in North America? Or let's widen it out: how many Orcadian place-names are there anywhere in the world? I'm off to watch Scotland humiliating Italy* at rugby now. Norman Tulloch *Well, I hope so, anyway!
Norman wrote: "...here's a little challenge for you North American Orcadia listers: how many Orcadian place-names can you find in North America?" A while back, I discovered a 120-year-old map showing Orkney, the small railroad town established in one of Nebraska's southwest corners during the latter 19th-century. The village's name was changed to Bushnell sometime later. Orcadian diaspora very likely were living there in Kimball County and participating in early-day settlement same as they were elsewhere across the Great Plains at the time. Dick T