Hi all-- In case anyone is new, here is my husband's Aldrich line in brief. (It has been posted to the list already and I don't want to bore anyone.) 1. George Aldrich 2. Jacob Aldrich 3. Both David and Seth Aldrich 4. Edward Aldrich m1 Dinah Aldrich m2 Ann Chamberlain 5. Zaccheus Aldrich m. Naomi Sprague 6. Naomi Aldrich m. Caleb Chaffee I just came back from a week of research in Salt Lake City :) While there, I tried to get some documentation on generations 5 and 6. My father-in-law did the research but did not include his sources :( I ran into a bit of a problem--actually there are now 2 mysteries. I knew about the first one before and now I have a second. 1. Naomi Sprague who m. Zaccheus Aldrich is said to have been the dau. of Daniel Sprague and Sarah Ballou of Johnston RI. I have searched and searched and cannot find any documentation on her. The only information I have comes from the Sprague and Ballou Genealogies, both of which say that she is a dau. of Daniel Sprague and his first wife Sarah Ballou. This, I believe, is impossible. Sarah Ballou Aldrich died in 1736, which means that Naomi would have been born by then. Zaccheus Aldrich was born in 1755. I'm quite certain he wouldn't have married a woman 20 years his senior and then had a large family by her! No way! Conclusion: She is either a dau. of Daniel's second wife or not a dau. of Daniel at all. Does anyone know a Sprague family expert? There is definitely something amiss! 2. My father-in-laws records say that Zaccheus Aldrich and Naomi Sprague were probably married in Woodstock, CT, and that all of their children were born there. I decided to check this out. I looked at every available source for Woodstock, CT. They did indeed live there and I found birth records for 2 of their children, Naomi and Sprague. But I did not find a marriage record or births for the remaining children. I searched all the neighboring towns in CT, MA, and RI--nothing in Thompson, Killingly, Pomfret, Windham, Uxbridge, Douglas, Mendon, Providence Co., RI, etc. So where were they born?? And where were they married?? Zaccheus' father, Edward Aldrich, went to Franconia, NH, later in life--after his second family was born and partially grown. There really isn't any reason to believe that any of the children from his first marriage went up there. However, just to be sure, I checked. I find only the second family. No Zaccheus or other children from first marriage in Franconia. Zaccheus obviously wasn't in Woodstock the whole time. Does anyone know where he was? Or have any ideas? The two children that I found were younger, so the older ones are missing. (By the way, I did find Zaccheus Jr. living and having children in Pomfret later on.) Any help on this would be appreciated! Sue Roe