Dear Holly & Listers: Hope springs eternal! I saw your response on the N.B. list about others plagarizing your work and have had the same experience BUT that's not what caught my eye. I see you are researching McLaughlin and Smith. Both these names figure prominently in my N.B. twenty year search for my ancestors. I am hoping to make a connection with living family for the very first time. The bare bones: I descend from Daniel John McLaughlin b.c1807, N.S. d. 20 Nov 1871, Saint John, N.B. m. 21 May 1831, Saint John 1st) Charlotte Vaughan with 7 children; Mary Storey b. 1834 who m James McCurdy; Daniel John #2 b. 1837 who m. Marjorie Melville SMITH; Annie b. 1842 who m. Simeon Jones; Caroline b.1843 who died young; George Edward, b c1845 who m. Mary S. Smith; Fred Murray, who married Anne Unknown and Eliza Jane b. 1846 who married the Hon C.N. Skinner. Daniel John Sr's 2nd marr: 1851, Fredericton, N.B. to Widow Eliza Baillie (SMITH) Gove with six children, residence Saint John: Hedley Vicars McL.., male, b.1858, DNM; Rothesay Albert, b. 1860, m. Olive Blanche Kellier; Arthur Lloyd, b. 1861, died young; Laura Dick, b. 1863, DNM; William Morley Puncheon, b. 1865, m. Olga Olga A. Benzem and Harry Smith, b 1866, m. Margaret B. O'Connell. The SMITH family are descended from George Neilson SMITH, b. 1787, Edinburgh, Scotland and Olivia Eliza Morgan, b. 1795, Waterford, Ire. If any of these names are familiar to you, would appreciate a reply. Would like one anyway! Bev in Toronto </HTML>