Hi Chris, In the immigrant research, I tried to locate as many additional sources as I could. I do apologize that I did not finish up the California research. There was a five volume set at the library, however one book was missing. If I remember correctly, I checked over a few months and the other volume never did show up, and I really wanted to complete the set. I never got back to it. However, I do vividly remember looking at a couple of the other books and having a big laugh, "They immigrated all right - some of them immigrated from New York, USA." I will make it a point to re-visit the California section on my next trip to the library and see if I can find these volumes for us. In the SSDI project that I have started I noticed that New York has the highest concentration of Eldridge families. Total Social Security cards were issued as follows for the USA: Eldridge = 6,437, Eldredge = 1,196, Eldred = 1,364. (Eldridge for New York 514, Massachusetts 461, Kentucky 393, Texas 358, Tennessee 333, California 316, Indiana 287, New Jersey 260, Illinois 250, Ohio 244, Pennsylvania 240, Michigan 236, Virginia 203, Missouri 160, Arkansas 154, North Carolina 152, Oklahoma 131, Florida 131, Alabama 118, Maine 115, Mississippi 108, Connecticut 102, all other states less than 100.) (Eldredge for Massachusetts 207, New York 164, California 92, Utah 73, Illinois 52, all other states less than 50.) (Eldred for New York 235, Michigan 223, California 110, Ohio 68, Illinois 61, Texas 60, Washington 60, Pennsylvania 56, all other states less than 50.) I am surprised that over the past several years that I have been on the Eldridge-L list that we never hear from anyone from New York. There is an article in the archives about a Zoeth Eldridge and his family that moved to New York that I posted that is interesting, but I still think that immigration patterns for the Eldridge families to New York and from New York needs further study. I don't mean to lead you astray that James T. Eldridge might have immigrated from New York, but it might be a thought. Donna