Hi, guys!! ...first, an assurance: Irene, I got your response to Donna's 'wish list' on the TOLPUDDLE-L list yesterday, so it's coming through. I do know that occasionally my date reader gets messed up and this same missive that says "Received: 10/3/99 9:32 PM" also says "Sent: 9/29/19 8:30 AM" ...but that's my problems until my 19-y/o tech/rep gets home from college some weekend! One nice thing about seeing the original handwriting of the enumerator (such as I sent you copies of for Tolpuddle 1851) is that one realizes there's an human element here: As mentioned in a previous e-mail, the guy's using the old English/?Germanic mode of writing double "S's" as "fs" Ten years later, the enumerator was of that 'old school,' and "spelt" (is that a type of wheat?) it correctly....? I have to watch that I don't get too rigid about translating old information while, at the same time, being sure I don't misinterpret data. Perhaps it's a little like the analysis Donna and I (and others, I think) are doing with the name of COSH/CORISH/CORNISH....? I'm really excited about what you're doing and hope you put whatever queries and responses you come up with onto the TOLPUDDLE list so we can all mull over them and speculate together Is this getting exciting or what!!? Jacki - on the Dakota Plains jki