I owe my knowledge about my Dutch Ancestors to the ladies, including Alma Ison of the Mercer County Kentucky Historical Society with whom I corresponded back in the 1960's and 1970's. These women, were very generous with their knowledge and suggestions and so I was directed to both Arthur Weaner of Hunterstown, PA and Ursula Brecknell of Somerset County, a relationship that I have today. People were extremely generous with sharing and assisting novice genealogists in those days and everything just grew from that point on. I was interested not only in the ancestor linage but also in the historical and land facts, so when my husband got out of the Marine Corps, we moved back to Ambler PA where he grew up, and I found myself in a wonderful location for exploring those areas where my family lived. Growing up in Iowa, I had no idea at all as this was my fathers side of the family who knew little to nothing about their family. When my daughter went to school out in Southampton, L.I., this gave us the opportunity to explore Staten Island and Brooklyn using old land maps and other clues. I found the Lammert Dorland homestead in Harlingen from the description in the Dorland genealogy and Ursula would take me exploring all around that wonderful area. I located the cemetery, which the farmer didn't believe existed and talked the Crawford House Inc. into taking care of it. We were able to explore the house and as Ursula is an Architectural Historian who is well respected in that region, we were allowed in to the house to take photos, and measurements. I spent time with Arthur in the Conowago region of PA, then Jim and I explored Kentucky and Shepardstown and I was able to find the location where the Dutch lived prior to their trip to Kentucky. We hit all the courthouses and Societies. It has been a wonderful experience and all along the way, were fantastic people ready and willing to give us a hand. Documents were more readily available to us then with little problems in obtaining them. I tried to pay all these people back by donating copies of what I had found believing that keeping it my home wasn't going to take it any where, but handing it down to the next generation, be it mine or someone else's would. Judy ************************************** AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at http://www.aol.com.