I call myself "MoS" now because of possible confusion, but my email is (oddly enough) murray@saltspring.com -- I'm not the only Murray on this little island, but I seem to have been the first to get an email address. Anyway, Sandra, welcome to the melee. I may as well advertise here the existence of my Scottish index, which as I said covers an awful lot of the old stuff, i.e. Scots songs, and also a good deal of verse (no music), and *also* a good many of the tunes in collections. I realise there are other indexes, of course, but this is my pet and I've been fiddling with it for donkeys' decades. So the odds are that I can tell you *something* about the oldies, and maybe a bit about the newer stuff--i.e. post-1900. I am no match however for Bruce Olson in Maryland, who has delved into old manuscripts and whatnot and made quite a few discoveries. If you want to email me at the above address, I'll be pleased, tho I warn you I'm notorious for being backward at coming forward in that regard. But I will reply sometime. Cheers Murray