Judy (Outsider AngelSpider) asked: "where do these "Atwood" newsletters come from? Whence was their > origination and what years? I've kept them all, hoping to find my Atwood, > but am still curious about their origination." ---- Claudette Atwood Maerz began publishing the Atwood Ancestors newsletter around 1981. She had subscribers who submitted their family lines and questions, research findings like census lists, results of cemetery searches, etc. - much like the online mailing lists, but a lot more work! She published 18 or 19 volumes (years) and so far Brad and I have managed to transcribe volumes 1 through 6 (there were two volumes 6's numbered 6 and VI), 8-10 and he is working on vol 12. I have the first half of vol 7, and volumes 13-15 which I will be working on for the next couple of months, and he will continue with whatever he has above that. Neither of us seem to have a Vol 11 (eleven), so if anyone out there has that volume, or the second part of volume 7, we'd love to have those transcribed too. (I will do it if you mail it to me. Let me know and I'll send my address.) Ruth Atwood [email protected] Age is a very high price to pay for maturity