Hi Alvin Was your mother Margaret (Ritchie) Atkinson the daughter of Thomas Ritchie and Margaret Wilson ?? If so do you have any of Margaret Wilsons siblings or her parents? It's really no problem for me to check my material for additional information that may help you in your search. later Ida Alvin Atkinson wrote: > > she was my mother I don't know why I did not mention it before I am writing to another person and the communications in my brain get scrabbled I am interested in her family not the Ritchie side but her mothers side whose name was Wilson they at one time owned a sawmill near Jamisens or Wielders lake