Hi folks, I have joined http://www.genealogywise.com which is a genealogy social networking site. It seems a little more apropo than BottomBook and the silliness that goes on there. This site has a number of useful looking groups, but no Scotch-Irish or Ulster Scots or anything like that (lots of Irish of course). More interestingly, it has a number of different types of groups -- surnames of course and I found one for coal mining families from Durham, England, where my father's family is from, some how-to lists. There are premium services that I have not signed up for. Linda Merle