I'd like to thank all of our members who have sent me good wishes for my visit to England next week. With the help of some of our B-L members in England and members of the Blanc/shard Family History Society, my plans are nearly complete and it should be a most interesting experience. One of my goals is to discover new information about some of our early BLANCHARDs and I will give a full report to B-L. Fletch