List, I know that I'm older than some folks, ...but... You are looking for ancestors ? C`mon ! In northern Vermont, many of the things like ice harvesting were common factors well into the fifties. My birthday was in the first two weeks of January and It was easy to lie to the man that owned and ran his own ice house business. At eleven yrs old, I told him that I was fourteen and worked after school and on both weekend days to manage the storage of the blocks of ice in his warehouse. One of the percs of that job was that we were allowed to do some fishing in the (cut) channels of the ice that led up to the carriage sluices which brought the blocks up to the different levels in the main warehouses . There were four buildings in all. I earned a whopping fifteen cents an hour . With the christmas vacations from school, I made a real killing while the freezing temperatures lasted. The January thaw usually signaled the end of that work. The quality of the ice after that time made it impractical for long-term storage. For three years though, my January earnings were amazing. It is hard to remember, but my adult brother worked part time in a (SHELL)service station and he was only making thirty-one cents an hour. I got a two cent raise in my second year and three more cents in the third. Dave –— SCRIPT BELOW THIS LINE IS NOT MINE –— end of my message –— _bbffrrpp@comcast.net_ (mailto:bbffrrpp@comcast.net) WRITES : an ancestor who worked in those ice-block creating companies? **************A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1222846709x1201493018/aol?redir=http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.asp x?sc=668072&hmpgID=115&bcd=JulystepsfooterNO115)