* * * * * * * * Please to not respond to this message in any way that sends your reply to the list. If you must comment, please do so to me PERSONALLY at either darrellm@sprynet.com or vermont-admin@rootsweb.com * * * * * * * * Greetings: I found the message on Scottish Paternity fascinating, as I have a lot of ancestry from that country (much of it through the Scotch-American Company of Farmers that settled Ryegate in the 1770s). Clearly the message was not spam, or offensive. However, duty obligates me to remind each of us that all posts to the VERMONT list need to have some direct *explicit* connection to ... well ... Vermont. Gotta spell it out, folks. 'Nuff sed? I hope so. Neither apologies nor agreement necessary. And now, back to digging up dead ancestors. Darrell VERMONT list admin