This is a note of thanks to the many generous people who helped me find my Oregon ancestors, and even a descendant of those ancestors! When I started my search for my grandmother Minnie Boone’s family, I received much help from many wonderful people. There are lots of Boones, and many are well documented, giving searchers somewhere to start. And I found my Boones, as well as some of their descendants and many, many distant Boone cousins. When I started to search for my Boone grandmother’s mother’s Thompson people, things got much more difficult. Thompson, I think, is almost in a league with Jones and Smith! But I've found many of them! My sincere thanks go to the following: Oliver Orange Burns_ my great grandmother, Martha Alice Thompson Boone’s son-in-law, long deceased, who bothered to listen to an old lady and then bothered to record on her death certificate the town and state where she was born. This was a key clue. Arlene Curry Buschert_ a Boone cousin and native Oregonian, who looked up and copied the 4-18-1869 marriage record of my great grandmother, Martha Alice Thompson and great grandfather, Theodore Warner Boone. Jane Hutchings, Don Houck, Lisa Jones and Jan_ all Linn County Oregon volunteers who have done invaluable census, cemetery and other look ups for me. Glenn Harrison_Linn County Historical Society, who bothered to let me know that there was a Sara L. Tanner who registered as researching Linn County Thompsons. It has taken a while, but the connection has been made, and I am now 99.9% sure that Sara’s great grandfather was George Clinton Thompson and that he and my great grandmother, Martha Alice Thompson, were brother and sister. Sara and I are third cousins. I'm sure I have left out other people who helped in many different ways. I thank them too! There are still many Thompson pieces to be found and assembled, but what a great start! Sincere thanks, Geraldine Ingersoll