Les Horn wrote: >> Hi all >> >> Is anybody there or have you all gone into hibernation. This is the >> quietest I've ever known this List - a week without a post !! Any spare history moments I have had have been concentrating on the Parish Project. I have got more of the records we have harvested and collected here, into a bit better order and hoping someone might be able to have some time to make a coherent library of the contents, and get more of it onto the forum. The forum is getting busier, and it would be great if anyone here has the time, inclination, knowledge to add their contributions to it. Whether its information about the way of life, the history and politics, the individual places, transcribing things like MI images, wills etc, there is plenty for anyone to do to add to the whole idea. I was completely gobsmacked the other day when an eminent gaelic historian and lecturer gave me a huge compliement on the structure and concept of the site, as the best local history site he had ever seen. I was blown away, and protested that we are so much at the beginning of a long journey, and there are many better, but it was really really lovely to have the recognition of the aims of the project from such as he. I am aware that if its progress is left to me alone, then it will be painfully slow, I have so little time I can afford to give it. I am also aware that much that we all bring to the site of the background to the area and lives will be relevant to many other parishes in the county, so its got much wider relevance in the long term. Otherwise I am up to my ears in winter work around the farm here, in the office for the business and the Local Producers network - our first market of the year is this week. I am really looking forward to welcoming any of you who are visiting the area to our wee place here this year. regards Jill Bowis www.lorn.org.uk Local Origins Rural Network - Local Producers Market & Business/Community Network www.kintaline.co.uk - where we are, what we do: Kintaline Plant and Poultry Centre www.benderloch.org.uk/forum - Ardchattan history, geology, ecology, genealogy, weather, webcam, local forum