Hi, I sure would like to contact someone who has info on the Barre, VT, BLANCHARDS, and/or can poke around the archives in Montpelier for me. I will be making a trip up there and would like some suggestions on contacts and/or fertile repositories of genealogical info on the BLANCHARDS. Maybe someone on the list has done some checking already, or has kin from up there. I'd like to communicate. I was fortunate to make contact, through the internet, with a distant, heretofore unknown BLANCHARD cousin in CA who was kind enough to send me actual photographs of the following people (I will be happy to send copies to any other descendants): 1) AMOS BLANCHARD (son of ASA BLANCHARD and LYDIA NICHOLS). AMOS was b. 25 Oct 1791 in MA , and d.1836 in Barre, VT. 2) Amos' wife: DOLLY PETTINGILL b.1794, d. 1870 3) JOSHUA PETTINGILL BLANCHARD (son of Amos and Dolly) b. 1920 in Montpelier, VT; d.1884 in Oregon City, (He and wife went over the Oregon Trail in 1851) 4) Joshua's wife :REBECCA JANE RACE b.1828 Coshocton, Washington Co. OH , d.1921 in Oregon City. I addition to these four above, there are photos of the siblings of Joshua. I really would like to share these with other descendants...it's not everyone who has photos of ancestors who were born in the 1700's! Albert