[i] *puts on an antic disposition* [/i] I'm curious about some of these. Don't post your actual name if you don't feel comfortable doing so, don't even feel obligated to state the language if you don't want to. It was some time ago that I managed to find it, but my name translated (according to google) from Russian into "tap-hole". The hole at the bottom of a furnace through whoch molten metal flows. So my guess is that one or more of my ancestors worked at, maintained, or made, tap-holes. Share away.