I have just joined this mail list after many years of research.... The web pages as under contain quite a few Scottish ancestors. I have much to share with anyone who has links.... Sincerely in Searching..Thelma (Bostock)Birrell in Queensland. John BIRRELL, one of the Birrell family out of Fife, worked in Glasgow and d.c.1900. James BIRRELL left from the port of Broomielaw, which is in Renfrew if I am reading it right. Isabella CRAWFORD married John McKAY at Glasgow in early 1800's. MALTMAN family had links to SHEARER JAMIESON and a host of other names and lived at Renfrew 1800-1850 is in the web page as under Irish-Scots - http://matthewbirrell.50megs.com/index.html Crawford/Sarkies etc.... www.electricscotland.com/webclans/atoc/crawfor2.htm Birrell-Kirk - www.electricscotland.com/webclans/atoc/birrell2.html Montgomery - Down - Birrell www.users.bigpond.com/mrbirrell/ Cox-Upjohn - www.angelfire.com/rnb/mrbirrell/ Bostock-Rafferty-Rhodes - http://birrell.1hwy.com/index.htm Stokes-Yates-Owen - www.freehomepages.com/mrbirrell/ Pour a cup of Kindness and Sweeten with a Smile. ----- Original Message ----- From: <SCT-RENFREW-L-request@rootsweb.com> To: <mrbirrell@bigpond.com> Sent: Monday, 24 March 2003 9:00 PM Subject: Re: You have added to the subscriber list of: SCT-RENFREW-L@rootsweb.com the following mail address: mrbirrell@bigpond.com By default, copies of your own submissions will be returned. Welcome to the SCT-RENFREW mailing list! You are currently subscribed in "mail mode", which means that you will receive every posting made to SCT-RENFREW as a separate e-mail. The directions on how to change to digest mode are given below. 1. How to unsubscribe. Send a message to SCT-RENFREW-L-request@rootsweb.com that contains (in the body of the message) the command unsubscribe and no additional text. 2. How to subscribe. Whatever you just did worked, or you'd not be getting this message. But for future reference (for instance, if your subscription is cancelled for whatever reason and you want to resubscribe), just send the command "subscribe" to SCT-RENFREW-L-request@rootsweb.com. 3. How to change to digest mode (several postings are combined and sent to you together as a single large message). There are two steps. First, send the command "unsubscribe" to SCT-RENFREW-L-request@rootsweb.com to discontinue mail mode. Second, send the command "subscribe" to SCT-RENFREW-D-request@rootsweb.com to start receiving digests. 4. How to change to NOMAIL mode. There is no formal NOMAIL mode. All you have to do is follow the directions above and unsubscribe when you want the messages to stop, and then when you want them to start again, simply subscribe again. 5. If you'd like to post a message so everyone on the mailing list receives it, just send it to SCT-RENFREW-L@rootsweb.com. It will then be sent on to everyone in both mail and digest mode. You don't need to send it explicitly to both. For your verification, a transcript of the original subscription request is included below. -- >From mrbirrell@bigpond.com Mon Mar 24 04:00:03 2003 >Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.16.34]) > by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h2OB03qZ010913 > for <SCT-RENFREW-L-request@lists5.rootsweb.com>; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 04:00:03 -0700 >Received: from mta06bw.bigpond.com (mta06bw.bigpond.com [139.134.6.96]) > by mail.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.4) with ESMTP id h2OB01Sd014571 > for <SCT-RENFREW-L-request@rootsweb.com>; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 04:00:02 -0700 >Received: from matt ([144.135.24.81]) by mta06bw.bigpond.com > (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15 mta06bw Jul 16 2002 22:47:55) > with SMTP id HC92J300.3AQ for > <SCT-RENFREW-L-request@rootsweb.com>; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 20:59:27 +1000 >Received: from 144.139.132.127 ([144.139.132.127]) by bwmam05.bigpond.com(MailRouter V3.2g 38/6935823); 24 Mar 2003 20:59:18 >Message-ID: <002301c2f1f4$7a9f9c30$7f848b90@matt> >From: "Thelma" <mrbirrell@bigpond.com> >To: <SCT-RENFREW-L-request@rootsweb.com> >Subject: >Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 20:59:35 +1000 >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="Windows-1252" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >X-Priority: 3 >X-MSMail-Priority: Normal >X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2720.3000 >X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 > >subscribe > >