Greetings New York List: I just wanted to report that I've had some more success with receiving information from the Social Security Administration. (It's a pity that social security numbers weren't used a hundred or so years earlier!) Anyway, I've peeled back another layer of my daughter's ancestry on her dad's side. Prior to me getting the mail today, all she knew was the name of her great-grandfather (father of her paternal grandmother). Now we know he was born in 1892, in Canada, lived in Vermont and we also know the names of both of his parents, including his mother's maiden name! All of this information was on a copy of the original application for a social security number (SS5), filled out when the gentleman was about 46 years old in 1939. The length of time to receive this information from the Social Security Administration was approximately six weeks, which I think is about the same time period as last year. And, finally, I guess I will just say thanks to good old F. D. R. and his administration for implementing the system in the first place! Regards to "y'all" from a gorgeous night in central Texas, Marilyn Stern (formerly from Ulster Co., NY)