Need to know where to go for information (if there is such a place) about people who worked on the Erie Canal. I can't prove it, but suspect that gggrandfather, Sanford Ackerman, may have been involved in helping to build it. One of his wives, my gggrandmother was Adelia Dewolf born in Herkimer in 1817 so members of her family also may have helped build it. Nothing is known about her family, but what few Dewolfs I have encountered in that time frame 1815-1825 seem to be in towns strung along the canal itself. Sanford ultimately wound up in Perrysburg, Cattaraugus County, in the 1830 census. Any help greatly appreicated. Kathy Farrell