Hello All The Gathering is now four weeks away and we are looking forward to fitting this into the middle of our holiday to Scotland. We are staying at a cottage very near to where the Ceilidh is being held - at Alyth - for a week. We shall be bringing a few pictures with us and out Petries of Kirkmichael family tree, for all those who would like to look at it :0( We shall try to upload this to the web site before the Gathering. Unfortunately, we don't have a laptop so cannot bring the 1881 census with us. If anyone would like lookups of ANY family doing, please bring the requests with you - or e-mail them to us now - and we shall send the results later. If you e-mail requests to me (privately, not via the List) please let us know if you will be at the Gathering. If you will not be there, we shall e-mail the results; if you will be there we can bring them with us. The same applies to the Vital Records Index for the UK. We have this, but it has very little Scottish data. It is mainly English, unfortunately. The Petries have already been put on the web site. Looking forward to seeing some of you next month, and to meeting up AGAIN with Norma, Hazel and their families. Cheerio for now from sunny Yorkshire, England :0) :0) Karen and Stephen Baker