Hi all, WHO, WHEN and HOW I'm a new subscriber to TOLPUDDLE-D, having been pointed in itsdirection by Donna King a few days ago. I'd previously emailed Donna with an "off-list" reply to her request for info on the DORSET list re LOVELESS in Tolpuddle, and she posted relevant extracts to the TOLPUDDLE list on 24Apr. WHY and WHERE I joined because I'm conducting a RIGGS One-Name Study, and the "ancestral home" of RIGGS seems in the mid-1600s to be the area centralised around Cheselbourne, which includes Tolpuddle, Puddletown, etc. As part of my Study, I've extracted almost all the church register entries for Dorset parishes at the Dorchester County Record Office which relate to RIGGS. WHAT But have I made the right choice. I've just done what I should have done before subscribing - searched through the List's archived messages, (by visiting http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl and keying in TOLPUDDLE as the initial search term) It seems that all the messages relate to LOVELESS and/or LOVELACE and cover not just TOLPUDDLE but their descendants in other villages/counties/countries even. Is it therefore truly a TOLPUDDLE List or should its title be the LOVELESS List ? IMHO, I suspect the latter in the light of the following extract from a message I discovered in the archives posted by the previous list-owner:- >>>> Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 15:02:17 -0500 From: "Wendy L. Miller" <[email protected]>To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Subject: [TOLPUDDLE-L] .... Janice, if you get this e-mail, we're a new list devoted to finding out more about Lovelesses in England, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. W. <<<< Geoff RIGGS One-Name Study (GOONS Register no.2408) webmaster of: http://relative-links.genealogy.org http://welcome.to/Gwent.FHS http://welcome.to/AFHS.Wales This e-mail is made of 100% recycled electrons