Pauline, I don't know if this is a dead horse or not, but I want to dwell a little on the dilemma of the lost Hartman materials... You wrote.... > John & Albert: > Both of you may have this information--but just in casenot it's worth repeating. > > Two or three years ago Bruce & I spend part of a week in the New York Biographical & Genealogical Soceity in down town New York City. Mr. John Crawford Hartman was an employee of that society for many years, I understand. His mother was a Blanchard. At the offices of the society are 4 huge boxes of his references. He had four manuscripts about ready to publish. From what we saw two were already typed. They would only let you copy about 25 copies a day so we could not copy what we wanted. Bruce had wanted to make an offer to pay for having a disc made of each of these manuscripts if we could have a copy. He became ill and did not make the offer . He also had a card file with individual names on them and vital statistics with notations. Worlds of information. > > We were paying $200 a night in a hotel within walking distance so paying for discs would not have been much more than we were paying to be in the City. > > I am presuming that JCHY stands for this Mr. Hartman. > > Pauline Blanchard > E-mail: bjb@texomaonline.com > <snip> What a shame to think of all Hartman's work hiding somewhere, languishing incognito in four boxes, perhaps to be (HORRORS!) thrown out by a disinterested relative cleaning house. I just can't believe that neither he nor his survivors failed to make arrangements for his ready-to-publish work to be preserved. Since he worked at the Genealogical Society, doesn't it stand to reason that those four boxes would still be there? He must have been in touch with a publisher.... Aren't there any living family members who might have a clue to pursue? This appears to be such a great treasure trove of BLANCHARD research, that I really feel that no stone should be left undisturbed in an effort to locate it. Are any list members who live near New York interested in taking up the chase? Albert ------------------------------------- E-mail: skipb@nh.ultranet.com Date: 12/17/97 Time: 18:48:35 ------------------------------------ ALBERT EDWARD BELANGER 128 Middle Road Brentwood, NH 03833 (Researching: BANCROFT, BELANGER, BLANCHARD, EATON, ENSOR, DAVID, DOLE, GAGNON, HARRINGTON, HUGHES, PHILLIPS, RACE, ST.PIERRE, EDMINSTON, FORTIN, HURLEY, MARINO, MATTHEWS, McQUEEN, MEALEY, MOORE, Oregon Trail 1851, PETTINGILL, PLANTE, POOR, SEAL, STEWART, SMITH, WEED, WHITEHOUSE) _________________________________________________________________________________________________ HARTMAN 12 17 1997