Hello,   I'd like to suggest that you check the libraries within a half-hour drive of Boston and Cambridge which .host.  a Genealogy Club.    The ones I can think of at this moment is the library in Lynnfield where meetings of the ESOG   (Essex Soc. of Genealogy) are held.   And, coming up my way there is the Pollard Library in Lowell where some of the meetings for the GLGC (Greater Lowell Gen. Club) are held.    And at the Chelmsford Library - the Chelmsford Genealogy Club.  *   Oh, just remembered the .great.   "Special Collections Room" on a top floor of the Haverhill Public Libnrary.    Because of budget cuts for several years, I think it is only open on certain days and times.   Almost every library between Boston and Lowell, etc., has a "history room."      Some have more books;  some have less.     I found an important, genealogy book I needed at the library in Lexington.    And the "history room" at the library in Billerica now has a computer in the room.   Betty             (near Lowell, MA)     * For almost 10 yrs., I have wondered why there was no genealogy club in Billerica.    And, I have wanted to start one up -- but --   I wanted to start up a joint Billerica and Chelmsford Group -  but -  where meetings were held in the morning.      There are many .seniors.   (us)  who do not go out in the evenings very often.    I would much prefer a meeting once a month at 10 am,  possibly held at the Senior Centers - jointly.     "Some day"  when I have extra energy and get motivated, I will try this.   Billerica and Chelmsford were both incorporated in 1655,  and at the time their plantations were very large.    Both towns had several towns annexed off of them.    And, Billerica was all .forest. and hills, and rocks,  and not so good for farming.    But, Chelmsford had both the large Merrimack River and the Concord River and lots of good farming land.    So many of the early settlers in Billerica moved over to Chelmsford.