Dear fellow Gifford searchers, For those of you who have not checked this resource, it's very interesting & also may help a few folks with ideas. <A HREF="http://www.hamrick.com/names/names.cgi?surname=Gifford&year=1850&type=ht ml">- GIFFORD Surname Distribution </A>. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did. An aside - My system has been down twice in only the past month & that made it necessary for me to reinstall AOL. Although I had begun backing up my address book in the PlanetAll site, I had not kept up with entering all of the names & contact information. Other than Gordon Walk who is in my trusty backup book at that site I'm sure I have missed a lot of you. Believe me, after having to reconstruct what I had not entered earlier I'm a true believer & working on getting all of my loose ends tied up. If you would like to add a link to me or other Gifford researchers there (or just find out more about the backup) I'll provide a link. <A HREF="http://www.planetall.com/main.asp?s=1043&cid=966275 ">PlanetAll info </A> Susan McMackin Reynolds, Lewes DE researching the family of Mary Ellen GIFFORD of Lake Pleasant PA <A HREF="http://members.delphi.com/LIFESTORY/">Chronic Illness & Life Challenges Workshops </A>