Brenda, I too am glad to claim my Collins inheritance, both lines :) even though I don't carry the name Collins - I do have the Collins blood. I am thankful that Mom stress in later years what mattered most was family. She was the one that insisted that I research her Collins lines even though she would get upset with some of the details I found out. :) At Thanksgivivng Dinner I would want James and Fanny there so we could ask our questions and finally get the answers of Fanny parents were as well as James, Joseph and John so that we wouldn't assume or speculate. What fun we would have hearing all their "tales" that I'm sure would be included. Thanks to all of the Collins' descendants that are researching our lines and other Collins' lines as sometime in the future who knows, we just might find some connections that we never had suspected was ours. So from my direct line of Collins may I say have a blessed Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays enjoy every minture you have with your family because all to soon we lose our loved ones. Brenda, I sent off the envelope of pictures to you yesterday. I still have a couple to locate and get up to you. Ellen