Yes 60 years old as well. have you seen this e-book, about the Sinclairs and information about the other Orkney family names. http://uk.geocities.com/fnsnclr@btinternet.com/genealogy/Isles/index.htm. I bet you have. Willie 2008/10/26 Lisa Conrad <nisus00@earthlink.net>: > Yikes, Willie! > ------------------ > List Archives, information on contacting list administrator, Subscribing and UnSubscribing can be found at: > > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/SCT/ORKNEY.html > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ORKNEY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Hhm. Seems familiar. So, - maybe I've seen it? Anyway, the "Authorities and Aids" web page has some goodies. If anyone has, or might run across, a copy of any of the following, please let me know: :-) - CLOUSTON, M.D., The Rev. Charles - "Guide to the Orkney Islands" Edinburgh, 1862 - EDMONDSTON, Thomas - "An Etymological Glossary of the Shetland and Orkney Dialect, with some derivations of names of places in Shetland" Edinburgh, 1866 Publisher: A. and C. Black (1866) ASIN: B0006AG0R6 - TUDOR, John R. - "The Orkneys and Shetland: their Past and Present State. " London, 1883 Publisher: E. Stanford; [etc., etc.] (1883) ASIN: B0008596H0