Hello Dave thanks for your kind remarks! Yes, it is a most important project for everyone interested in Ireland. I have been working on it since 1982! So I am pleased to tell you that we published over 9,000 lives in nine handsome volumes in late 2009, and we also have an online version which allows searching and eventual corrections if needed. The bad news is that the online version allows limited free access, but is intended as a subscription service only. University libraries worldwide and perhaps some larger public libraries will have subscriptions and should also very often have the hard copy volumes. Of course the hard copy version is still available to buy! and information about that is available on the site as well. I don't know if individuals in South Africa can subscribe to the online version; as far as I know that possibility has not been negotiated for all worldwide individual customers Here is the website address http://dib.cambridge.org/ It will allow you to see the list of names of people that we have researched and written up. It is of course an all-Ireland list; (for instance 239 people associated with co. Antrim). The online site allows you to use the advanced search so you can for instance find the names of architects in DIB. The full text search is also available (49 uses of the word "Scotch", 11 of "Scotch-Irish"). I have written mainly people from the north of Ireland, and also some of the 18th and 19th century emigrants. If you see someone about whom you know a lot, don't hesitate to write to the project to offer extra information. We can add extra material and will in due course add extra names from history who missed out on entries in the first edition. At the moment we are working on people who have died and thus become eligible for inclusion, since our original cut-off date, which was 2003. Hope you find someone of interest in DIB. Best wishes Linde