This might be of interest to some of you ... I saw an article in the current (January 18, 2005) "Asian Reporter" about moves underway to create databases of people from India who migrated out of that country. It looks like it's just in the planning stages at this point, but if anyone is interested, you can go to the newspaper's website and download a PDF file of the issue at: http://www.asianreporter.com/completepaper.htm If downloading either the first 8 pages or the last 8 pages looks better to you ... the article is on page 3. Julie Kidd