Hello Everyone. I hope everyone had a Joyous Christmas and a safe New Year. As I start out this New Year, I realized that it has been over 10 years since I began my Trek to find my heritage. I have seen others searching the same lines, yet I seen pictures of my family and yet it was only in passing. I worked so hard, I am not out to take from anyone, only to be able to seen or even touch part of my family. It has come to my attention that other folks are receiving the most wonderful packages of information and pictures. If you are a descendants from my Hastings line: Lossing, Tilley, Friest, King, Masterson, Holforster, O'Leary Brown, McAllister, Hill, Ironmonger from Yorkshire England, Glover, Barfoot, Purvis, Beaton from Quebec and British Columbia, Elliott. Durst, Colbeck, Ripley, Armstrong, Spencer, and many more My Sewell line: Sewell, Freeman, Cooper, Wilson, Miller, Crone, Sayers, Postill, Hazard, Stone, Whittaker, Gauley, McDonald, Hill, Clarke, Anderson, Harper, Boston, McAlpin, Eagle, Kerwin, Smale, McCausland, Mercer, Hayball, Hamilton, and many more.... What I like is to touch base with as many folks that come from either Grey county or Bruce ewho have these names. I want to touch base with each and everyone to hear stories of families, to share picture, sad to say, I have found very little of my Hastings family, which breaks my heart... because my Maiden Name is Hastings and Joseph Hastings was the progenitor of our lines... I've been chasing and looking, but never really got there. My line desends from Joseph through to Thomas Alfred Hastings. I am not seeking anything other than to know what my family looked like. My did gr. gandfather Thomas look like, what did his siblings look like. As with the Sewell family, so little that is tangible. I will confess as I was given up for adoption as a baby, I have little contact with either family. It a big world when you are are alone. Please Help If there are folks out there that don't have a computer but you know of them, please pass it on. Kathy (Hastings-Sewell) Hoeldke Kathy [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------------------