I expect many listers will already be familiar with the Internet Archive at www.archive.org, but I was reminded of it - not having visited it for a long time - by a mention in "Bod-Kin", the journal of the Bradford FHS, December issue, which arrived today. If you don't know about it, do have a look at this enormous resource (it claims 150 BILLION pages), which has much genealogical and family history material and a lot of which can be dowloaded as PDFs, much of it out-of-copyright stuff. It's particularly good for one-namers. For instance, a search on "Stockdale" produced 662 entries spread over 14 pages. A search on "Bradford, Yorkshire" produces a number of old books on Bradford, including by the well-known Bradford author William Cudworth, that can be read online or downloaded, while "Leeds, Yorkshire" produces 192 hits. Try entering "Yorkshire parish registers" and you get 129 hits, including some of the publications of the Yorkshire Parish Register Society. Of course, there are many other forms of media than just books. Alongside the search box (top left screen) is a box listing "All media types" which lists in a drop-down menu the many different choices. If you haven't used the Internet Archive before, try it! It's remarkable what you can find. For instance, entering "Worsnop" - my other one-name study - produced among other hits a book of religious essays (digitised from a copy at Oxford University) with the somewhat extraordinary title "Entire sanctification distinct from justification, and attainable before death", published in 1859 by a nonconformist minister, Abraham Worsnop, of Scotter, Lincolnshire. Hardly a riveting read, but it's good for a one-namer to know about something like this. I also found a couple of books on Australia by Thomas Worsnop, who I was already familiar with as a former Town Clerk of Adelaide. I heartily recommend the Internet Archive - again, it's at www.archive.org -- Roy Stockdill Genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History: www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE