Passing the announcement below along from Northeast-Roots-L. If you're not familiar with David Samuelsen and SamPubCo, he provides for a small fee (8 bucks last time I checked) photocopies of wills for the counties and states listed on his web site. Although he can be a bit, um, curmudgeonly, and there's a wait of some weeks for delivery (about which he's quite up front on his web site), I've never had a problem with his service, nor have a number of other folks with whom I correspond. Photocopies were of high quality and always exactly what I ordered. He used to (and probably still does) offer a discount for purchasers willing to transcribe the wills they're buying and place them in online archives for the benefit of other researchers. A couple of our listreaders found me and this list through Brooks wills I transcribed for the Worcester County (MA) Wills pages at RootsWeb, so I can personally endorse this practice. (Advice if you're interested in ordering: Read his online instructions carefully, then read them twice or thrice more before sending him a question.) The following announcement includes new listings for Berkshire County, MA, 1761-1784, part of the western Massachusetts corridor through which many CT families seem to have migrated to VT, as well as Litchfield and Windsor Counties, CT. Perhaps these will help one of you to find your missing link. The SamPubCo web site lists all the wills he's copied to date, organized by county and testator name. Chris ===================== New volumes in SAMPUBCO will testators indexes Tue, 10 May 2005 13:58:03 -0600 Indexes of Testators NY - Rensselaer co NY - Vol 19 (1856-1859) (10 May) MA - Berkshire co MA - Vol 1-4 (1761-1784) (10 May) PA - Philadelphia co PA (entire file repaired to correct Volumes #) (7 May) NY - Albany Co NY - Vol 18-19 (1861-1865) (7 May) NY - Wayne Co NY - Vol. 1-3 (1886-1891) (7 May) VT - Windsor Co VT - Windsor District Vol 1-5 (1787-1821) (7 May) CT - Litchfield Co CT - Sharon District Vol. B-K (1757-1810) (7 May) NY - Richmond Co NY Vol. A (1787-1811) (7 May) These are not only ones. There are more counties and states in the indexes. Just that these ones are newest additions. http://www.sampubco.com/ W. David Samuelsen SAMPUBCO