Karen, I hope you do hear from him, but I want to emphasize that I have used researchers and I have *never* paid in advance for their work. I urge people to follow that procedure when using people on the web. Elaine Kromeo@aol.com wrote: > Hi, > I don't know if I got 'taken' or not. On May 22, I snail mailed a census > lookup request with $28 to Barry Collett and email'd the same request. > http://members.aol.com/censuscopy/census.html > On the snail mail, I asked him to email me when received. Nothing yet! > Since his email address is on AOL, I can check the 'status'. To date, he has > not read this email. On the web page, he says census are mailed within 7 > business days. My check has cleared my bank, last week. > Does anyone know anything about this guy? > Karen >