Thanks for your advice Julie. I'm in Oz and was totally unaware of the background you mention. I had assumed this was an extension of the British Library's Pilot Programme available from their website and know as Active Paper (that gives access by searchable facsimile) to a number of online papers, and which does not require registration. Your comments about Rootsweb and the list-owners are doubly interesting because the item has been shown on two other UK Rootsweb lists within the last few days to my knowledge. Friends who subscribe to those lists were the people who alerted me to its availability. Obviously the message is not getting through to some list-owners. I don't know if that is something you can follow up on in your capacity as the SFHG contact? Regards June Member No: 11917