Just today received an informative post from the CRAWFORD-L List about Brigham Young University's online collection of books, especially ones linked to the LDS church's new digitization project. The Post was full of good information on the project. Bottom line is that you can search for and view NOW some of the books that have been digitized. One such book is : Tate/Tait family history : from the Orkney's to Canada, 1696-2002 by Jackie Hobbs Found it by using the Geographic search box and entering the single word Orkney. There was only this one hit for that search. I've already gotten that film into the local FHC, but its not a good filming, this far exceeds it in quality. When the book description comes up, click on the typed title, its a hyperlink which will set up the book for viewing. Navigate the pages by using the clickable links at the left of the page images, . You can zoom in if needed, I didn't see pixelation on the map of Orphir until I'd zoomed in quite a bit. To use the BYU search page go here : http://www.lib.byu.edu/fhc/ To read the entire Post on the digitization project, go to the CRAWFORD archived messages and look at the most recent offering, its for Nov 6 and is from Wanda Harbert who had passed along the message from Ronald on another List. Ronald explains why BYU has some books available now, what to expect in the near future and how to use the site. http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/CRAWFORD/ Note that on page 14 of the TAIT book is a photograph of Naversdale in Orphir. That is a farm name from another book about the Orphir area, "Memories of an Orkney Family" by Harriet Groundwater pub 1967. I have it on my website because of the dedicated transcription efforts of Mike Clouston. At 43 pages, its 1/10th of the TAIT book's 425 pages which are printable from versions found just after the 'Index' along the left of the book images. The Harriet Groundwater book isn't in the LDS collection, so it won't be digitized. Meg Greenwood / Oklahoma USA