Dear Holly of Binghamton, NY, Are you anywhere near this LDS family history center? Vestal New York 305 Murray Hill Road Vestal, NY 13850-3617 Vestal, Broome County, New York, United States Phone: 607-797-3900 Hours: T 11:30am-3:30pm, 7pm-9pm; W 12:30pm-4, 6:30pm-8:30pm (members only) Th 12pm-3pm, 7pm-9pm; Sat 9am-12pm Closed: Closed Thanksgiving week; 2 weeks over Christmas & New Years; 2 weeks in August You wrote to Harris-Hunters Listers, Are there any descendants of the Thomas Harris/Martha Lake line on this list at present? He came from England to MA, son Ebenezer & Christobel Crary migrated MA --> CT, and his son PETER Harris m. Mary WELCH. They migrated from CT --> Northeastern PA with the Susquehanna Company to settle in the Wyoming Valley. there are a number of other siblings in each generation, and I am looking for any and all I can find! thanks Holly Harris Jagger Binghamton NY Reason for asking the above question: You need to search the online catalog of the Family History Library at www.familysearch.org to see what may be available to help answer your questions. Unfortunately, you did not insert a date [that I can find]. Queries need three pieces of info: Name, date, place. You have two items in your query but not the vital DATES! Do a PLACE search of the catalog for these items: Connecticut - look under the topic Genealogy, in particular, and see what other holdings might help you in your search. Also, you want to check the topic Vital Records for CT. Many New England villages/towns kept records of births, marriages and deaths from early times. (Those of us with Southern lines are not so lucky!!! We have to deduce a lot from land records, court records, voting records, etc.) Many of these records have been filmed and are held by the FHL in Salt Lake City. Also, surprisingly, you may find holdings of books you need in libraries near your home, especially in the local history sections of community colleges and any colleges or universities near your home. Just don't say genealogy to the librarian--unless you want that person to have a hissy-fit. Say you are doing local history. (Genealogists can be a bore--even to other genealogists!!! They don't want to hear your family history--unless, you will listen to theirs!!!!) Then do a county search of the FHLCatalog if you know what county in CT, and then a city search. Again, look for the topics Genealogy and Vital Records. Same way with all the other places your folks lived--but moving backwards in time is more likely to get you a better fit for your folks. You may find that FHL in SLC has microfilms of the records you seek, and you can borrow these films from Salt Lake City for a short time, for a small fee. But, first, check the libraries near you. (Some of us oldsters have visition problems and prefer indexed books to old handwritten books, but we DO view lots of films with handwritten records--just to make sure the transcriber of the book got the story right. Sometimes the transcriber left out just the piece of info you need!!!) Hope you find your Harrises. Even in colonial days, this was a common surname in these colonies!!! The English claim the name, the Irish, the Welsh, and the Scots. So far, I haven't seen any one claim Harris is German or Swiss or Scandinavian, but genealogy continues to surprise and amaze me!!! E.W.Wallace