Hi everyone, Welcome to the new members! We are a pretty small list, probably because Cady is a rather unusual name. I'm afraid folks drop out when there's "nuthin' happenin'." I encourage all of you to hang in there with us! We never know when some insignificant tidbit will turn out to be just the key we're looking for! I recently had a case in point on another family I'm researching--a 4th cousin sent me the news that she found a fellow I have been looking for without success--he was the wandering type--when she perused homestead grants for her great-greats. I would have never never connected the two families in this way. Isn't genealogy wonderful? Shirley, as far as you being the Cady orphan, I thought that I was, since no one has ever heard of "my" August Cady in Southbridge, Massachusetts and I cannot make a connection to any other Cady family! He must have been the proverbial "never owned anything, never stayed in one place, never joined a church, avoided the census taker" kind of guy, who eloped and in the end, fell into the ocean! Ah, there's always hope, and that's why I started this list. We are all of us family all together, there are no orphans when on our list! Everyone have a wonderful and safe Fourth of July week-end. Sue Cady List Manager