As I've changed my e-mail address, I thought it appropriate to repost my main surname interests: Main paternal line: GEDDES throughout Fordyce, Deskford, Cullen, back to pre 1700. Maternal offshoots (all direct ancestors, earliest known of each line given): My father's side: 1. SMITH, ALLAN, BRUCE, GORDON, ORD, BURGES, KEITH, ADAMSON all from Grange, back to approx 1700. 2. James REID (1757 Carestown Deskford - 1815 Swailend Deskford) prob s/o James REID and Elizabeth GRANT m 1757 Deskford; his wife Janet CLARK's family: John CLARK and Margaret ROBERTSON, Connage, Hilton and Muirycook, Rathven. Also Walter ANDREW b 1708 Pittenbringand Cullen and his wife Janet ANDREW prob d/o James ANDREW Fordyce. 3. Ann YOUNG (d 1841 Slogmahole Fordcye) m 1782 w/o Peter GEDDES, could be d/o Alexander YOUNG and Elizabeth GORDON in Gartly. 4. Jean GRAY m 1730 w/o Peter GEDDES. 5. Also family of Alexander GEDDES and Janet SMITH in Nether Clune Deskford 1730s-1750s, especially fate of Peter GEDDES and Margaret GORDON who marr 1781 Fordyce and their Birkinbog born family. My mother's side: 1. William WATSON blacksmith (1813 Banff - 1852 Portsoy). 2. John GEDDES m 1809 Portsoy (so for, not found to be part of my paternal Geddes line); his wife Elspet ROBERTSON (abt 1785 Portsoy - 1862 Portsoy), d/o farmer ROBERTSON and Janet MOIR. 3. Helen DUFF illeg d/o Alexander DUFF (said to have died by 1869) and Janet CRUICKSHANK (1800 Marnoch - 1870 Banff) prob illeg d/o Robert CRUICKSHANK (Turiff) and Isobel WILSON (Aberchirder). Howard Geddes