Dorothy wrote: > Does anybody have copies of the following proof. > Mendon MA New England Hist & Gen V 57 P 188 This is evidently a reference to the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, volume 57 (1903). The NEHGR is the premier scholarly journal of genealogy in the northeast, and you can find it at many libraries. > Mendon Mass Record = Grafton VR War Dept This must surely be two different references on one line. The town of Grafton published its vital records up to 1850 in a book entitled _Vital records of Grafton, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849_ (published 1906). The mention of "War Dept" presumably refers to some kind of records of soldiers in the Revolutionary War (assuming this is from a DAR document). There is a multivolume compendium called _Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War_, published in 1896 and also widely available. I have extracted all the Blanchards from that work, as well as all the Blanchard references before 1800 from the VRs, so I may be able to help you on either of those. > Grafton VR Mass. Archives Again, this may be two references on one line, or maybe this refers to vital records between 1850 and 1900, which are obviously not in the book I mentioned, but are available on microfilm at the Mass. State Archives and at every LDS Family History Center around the world. John Chandler