Hi Marilyn, Sorry I can't offer any clues to the Goodchild family, and I suspect that George Graham, as recommended by Clifford, can't either. George & I have worked very closely together over the past 10 years on the major Sunderland shipbuilders, and he has built his website around the Thompson shipbuilding family and those others that married into it such as Adamson, Austin, Bartram, Clark, Crown, Doxford, Gales, Laing, Pickersgill, Pile & Wake. Both George & I descend from Robert Thompson a keelman in Sunderland in the early 19th century. George's website has grown through his own efforts, and also the kindness of others, such as Clifford who have made contact with him when they discover a link into their own family trees. The website has come a very long way in 10 years since he deposited a small booklet with the Local Studies Department of the Sunderland Library, in Fawcett Street and started with a few pages on the web. So, if you do know of your family marrying into one of the above shipbuilding families, or you have a marriage to an unknown Thompson, I agree with Clifford and suggest you cross reference George's name index and you might be pleasantly surprised. As I am based in London, and visit Sunderland a few times each year, I try to check out new connections with the parish registers & probate records as much as possible in collaboration with George, so that when he posts a new page, we have done as much as possible to confirm the connection in the original records. Sometimes this has taken us years, but George is much happier when he knows that there is good primary evidence for the new connection. As Clifford mentions, photographs are always warmly accepted, especially as they help improve the visual appearance of a page of text. Grant White Born Sunderland, now living London, England Always on the lookout for the major shipbuilding families of Wearside.