In a message dated 7/17/2008 10:56:40 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Hello, I found a member of my distant family worked as a silversmith. Would this have been a good job? I'm wondering whether when he died, would there likely have been enough money to support his widow or would she have had to work or go to the workhouse? Thanks, Stephen. Hi, My GOODBY ancestors were mostly Silversmiths and Goldsmiths and made a very decent living with that trade. I still have relatives in the Jewellery Quarter in Birmingham. Georgina Goodby Fisher [email protected] formerly from Sutton Coldfield now in Orange, California 6 miles east of Disneyland _www.goodbytree.org_ (http://www.goodbytree.org/) Goons member #418 One Name Study Goodby **************Get fantasy football with free live scoring. Sign up for FanHouse Fantasy Football today. (http://www.fanhouse.com/fantasyaffair?ncid=aolspr00050000000020)