Welcome to the List, Edward. I made a quick check of the databases on our web page, but did not find your Elijah among the several that are there. I thought I would take this opportunity to suggest that you make a systematic search of our List Archives to determine if any member has discussed this family, during the past four years that the list has been operating. Elijhah, Edgar, Adelbert and Rhoda are not the most common names and should be good key words to use. The other suggestion, and reminder to all list members, posting your genealogy information to the list not only allows all the members to share this information, but it assures that it will be added to the List Archives at RootsWeb for anyone, members and nonmembers, to access. One more reminder - RootsWeb has been operating their PML (Personalized Mailing Lists) for almost 8 months. List managers who have signed on to PML, can submit "keywords" that are searched in all the List messages posted to the 10s of thousands of surname and regional genealogical mail lists that are served by RootsWeb. Whenever one of these keywords appears, the List manager is notified and receives a copy of the message containing the keyword. "Blanchard" is one of my keywords and I have archived almost all of my PML reports. I would like to share these with our List members but have not found time to organize them and decide which ones might be useful to you. I have tried to write my 'search strings' to weed out the obviously irrelevant 'hits' but still get a lot of messages about Blanchard OK, Blanchard, PA, Blanchard cemeteries, Blanchard as a given or middle name (though this might sometimes be of value), 'Blanchard' in a huge 'signature' list of surnames the poster is searching, etc. Recently, RootsWeb has offered to "Gateway" the PML responses to the Mail Lists - post all the PML notices to an appropriate Mail List rather than to just the manager. This is a good way to generate activity on the Lists, but so far, I have chosen not to set this up, primarily because there are so many messages of questionable value that I would prefer to be the one to suffer the frustration rather than all of you! However, because of PML, when you post a message to BLANCHARD-L, it will be shared with many more List managers/members who may have an interest in the names, places, etc. that are contained in your messages. If you have any thoughts or questions about PML, please let me know. Fletch