An extremely helpful person who wishes to remain anonymous has been looking through Lincoln Cocheu's VAN KOUWENHOVEN notebooks at the New York Public Library on my behalf while conducting her own research on the family. In response to her message below, can anyone shed some light on how this enormous collection is organized? Perry Streeter (perry@streeter.com) Canandaigua, New York USA -----Original Message----- I spent some time last week at the NYPL, and among other things, looked up the Cocheu material. It appears to be a typewritten index and 43 3-hole notebooks with say, 200 pages each, each page with a name, DOB DOD on a line and various stamped numbers. As far as I and the librarians could tell there is no way to tell which books contain which numbers or letters of the alphabet. Do you have any clues? The genealogy at the NYPL section will be moving downstairs and after the move it may be easier to work with the material -- in a month or two. At the moment, the index is on film which must be viewed on a different floor, and the notebooks must be viewed one at a time. The librarians are not too familiar with the material. I find it interesting to see how other complilers worked -- find the little newsprint and letters more interesting than the notes.