Just a few words to say "hello all" and to list some of my genealogical interests. They are relatively strictly North Antrim related. My grandfather's lot was MANN of the Portrush area and my grandmother's lot was CHESTNUT of the Ballymoney/Bushmills/Dervock/Mosside areas. My PARKES lot are direct immigrants from the midlands of England. There are web pages at http://www.parkesfamily.btinternet.co.uk/ I think that there are some on this list who have an interest in the emigrations from here in the 1760s and 1770s. Unfortunately, very few 'official' records of genealogical value exist from that time. I have made a start on the re-ordering of family names found in the 1740 lists of Protestant householders. The names (in alphabetical order) for the North Antrim parishes of Ballywillan, Ballyrashane, Dunluce, Billy, Ballintoy, Derrykeighan, Ballymoney and Kilraghts can be found at http://www.parkesfamily.btinternet.co.uk/1740nameorder.txt The lists were kindly checked for errors by international friends. I suggest that those list members who have an interest in this data take a copy of the file for use in off-line mode. I would be interested to learn if there ary any good correlations between ships' lists or arrivals' lists of immigrants and names in the 1740 "census". I should mention that advertisements for passengers on the 1760s and 1770s emigrant ships were placed in the "Belfast Newsletter" and would have been widely available in the north of Ireland. Norman