To The List. All my Ancestors ended up and remain in Connecticut. The BIXBY's (traced back to 1345) came from England, through Massachusetts, primarily in the Hopkinton, MA area. Although the name has been spelled: Bixby, Bigsbee, Byxby, Byxbee, Willard Bixby did a fantastic job of cataloging this line. Although there are some errors, the three volumes he published are most helpful to BIXBY researchers for the New England area. I am attempting to continue on, with the 7th, 8th, 9th & 10th Generations. His work was not copywriter, and I know that all his notes for volumes 4 - 7 were destroyed. He wrote my mother about his plans for this continued work, but passed away before he could complete it. George Henry BIXBY married Edith Gertrude SHERMAN, and they are buried in Moodus, part of East Haddam, CT The DRING's came here from Woodhurst, UK in 1865/ 1867(?) just after the civil war. They settled in Yorktown, Westchester Cty, NY and my paternal Grandmother, Jane (Jennie) DRING married Robert WILSON, and moved to Ridgefield, where they are interred. Robert WILSON was the first Rural U.S. Postal mail carried in Ridgefield, using horse and buggy. Her parents being buried at Pound Ridge, NY. There is a fantastic web site, from UK called "A Deluge of DRING"S" of anyone is interested The WILSON'S, also were from the Somers, NY area, and moved to Ridgefield. Here I am stuck with Francis WILSON and Eliza HYNARD, not knowing where they came from..(Scotland or England). They also are in Ridgefield. My SHERMAN'S if can trace to late 1700's here in CT, from the Norwich area, settling in Haddam/Hadlyme area. Benjamin SHERMAN's death certificate says he was from Norwich, but I cannot find any record of him. Edith Gertrude SHERMAN was my maternal Grandmother. I work very closely with another SHERMAN researcher in Texas, and we are currently alphabetizing all the SHERMANS in the U.S. Census's. There is also a great SHERMAN web site called "The SHERMAN'S of Yaxley" as that is where the first emigrated from to the US, in Rhode Island. Note: If it is Okay, I will put these web site address's in a separate letter to the list. Jim Wilson, Connecticut