Hi Denise, I feel I have mentioned this before, but, my Americans arrived in 1853 and were in the Bright area. One is buried at Beechworth and apparently had lived in the area for some time, he was a Mateer, the others were the Sloan Bros.,also a David Powel Craig,all from Penn.I wonder if back then they may have been aquainted. Good luck with your visitors it should be a lot of fun, generally they love Australia, mine did. Regards, Bev -----Original Message----- From: Denise [mailto:denisem@powerup.com.au] Sent: Saturday, 14 August 2004 2:52 PM To: AUS-VIC-HIGH-COUNTRY-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [HC] Crawford and other Americans - American descendants. Peter hi, Thought perhaps you may be interested to meet your 'kindred' friend again. We are visiting Beechworth in March 2005, for well over 40 (numbers to date) descendants of Hiram will hit town, to view and enjoy the Crawford Exhibition. I will be in town a week at least, this time bringing my children (of course adults) to show them around the area I've raved about for 6 years now. Finally they are showing some interest (g). "He who isn't interested" is now "he who is interested" and is coming also. Peter you may remember I went to USA in September 2001 to meet many Crawfords at a day put on for us. I wrote to a unknown person in 1999, and this was the result, all I wanted was some information on Hiram's parents and ancestors. Now it is our turn to play host. Next week we have the second lot of Americans to come to visit us, cousins we met at Crawford Day in Hiram's birth place. And at this point it appears there may also be a few Americans joining us in Beechworth in March, even tho some of them are not direct descendants of Hiram but cousins nevertheless of some degree. regards Denise --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.732 / Virus Database: 486 - Release Date: 29/07/2004 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.732 / Virus Database: 486 - Release Date: 29/07/2004