Thanks Norma, it was good to get into the site again and even better to see the flurry of emails since your return. I think you have fired everyone up again! Yes, I am still an orphan and think that I will have to be satisfied with my William WHYTE and Margaret PETRIE connections and also my grandchildren who are decendents of Andrew PETRIE and of course me. When I looked at some of the files in the filing cabinet I had trouble with some where they were mostly goobledygook and some with the writing with no breaks between words making them very difficult to read. Am I doing something wrong, is there something I should alter on my comlputer which will fix that? Annette in Cowra