>Will wandering through a flea market, I found some friendship quilt blocks >all embroidered with names, dates, and towns...I am wondering if some family >member might be looking for them. Can anyone help me? They are mostly dated >in the 1940's, and I do not know if they are family, friends or what. I did >have to guess on some names. > Sorry, I don't recognise the names, but applaud your efforts to find family members. When my grandparents moved from the farm established by the DIEHL family in the 1890s to their own place at Industry (in the 1940s) all the neighbor ladies got together and pieced a friendship quilt for them. My mother had the blocks put together, and it is now a treasured heirloom in my family. Someone will be very grateful to you! Kind regards, Jodi Emblen-Morris University of Puget Sound Washington State