To all, I have come across some documents on the Web concerning William Alanson Borden which I do not see on anyone's family trees on Ancestry. I have not searched elsewhere. A couple of people have William as son of Alanson, Isaac, etc. up to John, son of Richard the immigrant. However, nothing else was reported. The documents that I have found appear to be the research for someone's graduate thesis at the University of Missouri in 1967. They report the course of his life and career, as well as the names of his wife, two natural children and one adopted daughter. It appears that he was a notable librarian with a rather interesting, international career. It is one thing to have names and dates. Quite another to have some sense of the individual and his or her life work. BTW, does anyone have information on the YMI (Young Men's Institute) of New Haven? William was their librarian for several years. Later, he was President. Here are a couple of links to the Acrobat documents. If you backspace over the latter part of the URL's, you will get a list of all of the documents that you can explore. I have had some problems viewing these documents today. Perhaps their server is down. http://www.missouri.edu/~omshanti/pdf/bdn/bdn-all.pdf http://www.missouri.edu/~omshanti/pdf/bdn/bdnobit.pdf William's wife was Hope Lewis Borden, whose DAR lineage is given as follows (this is multi-line so you will have to delete any automatically inserted carriage returns): http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=drev&cres=33;1%2c38;1%2c&gsfn= hope+lewis&gsln=borden&sx=&submit=search&gsco=1&gspl=1%2cnot+available&year= &yearr=0&prox=1&yeart=a&ti=0&gss=angs&GS=BORDEN+HOPE+LEWIS William had one son, Lewis Borden, who married Helem W.... His daughter is given as Mrs. Earle Durham, probably her husband's name. Not very helpful. The adopted daughter is Anne Hobart Brown, b. 8 Jan 1905, d. Mar 1980. Regards, Julie