At 07:01 12/03/2012, Andrew Millard wrote: >Does anyone on the list know whether this is the best place to look >for a well-to-do Londoner who went to Africa in the 1720s? I don't, but I found the South Africa Immigrants - British mailing listb wonderfully helpful when I was trying to trace half a dozen separate twigs of my BELL family in South Africa. See: http://bigfile.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/listsearch Don