Oops, I need to change some of the rules. The response to my post on Tuesday has been overwhelming. What a thirst for knowledge. I also know more about New England stone walls - their in all of our trees! This 4 volume reference set is over 2000 pages. I don't think that there are any "complete" genealogies, but perhaps a direct line from an immigrant ancestry to a prominent business person in Eastern Massachusetts at the turn of the century (1900). One lookup went back to the Norman Conquest in 1066, while others start in the early 18th century. What I need to do a lookup is 1. <YOUR SURNAME - Boston Lookup> in the subject line. You don't need the brackets. That will help me track research better. 2. a location, if known is helpful. NH, ME, MA, RI, CONN, NY, VT are all states that I have found. A town name, if available is even better. 3. Any other surnames, wife's, mother maiden name, etc. We were able to connect a family from the distaff side through traditional naming methods. 4. If it is a very common name, it doesn't mean that it is listed. However, get as much of the above information as possible. 5. sibling names and children names have proven helpful A lot of the information is narrative and may include land grants, military service, ministry, indian raids, kind of work, trade, names of ships....just a bunch of information. In some instances there is the wife's family history in the middle of a paragraph with no reference in the index. It is definitely not a dry, annotate Vital Records book. These are the stories of truly remarkable people! In the INDEX, there is often the SURNAME Ancestry first, followed by Christian names. The Christian names apparently are those of the most recent family member or this end of the branch, so I have to almost read the entries backwards. Just because the book is titled Boston & Eastern Massachusetts, don't hesitate to contact me. For example, our family - LANG. It starts with where the Lang's are thought to be from (Devonshire, because he named one of his son's DEVON) and how he settled in Portsmouth, NH. 7 generations later (direct line) we get to William Alfred Lang, who was a banker in Reading, MA, 32nd degree Mason, Republican and member of the Congregational Church (Not our direct line, but interesting reading). We had never heard of any of these people and not only found a branch but the whole forest! I hope that this makes it a bit easier for the Rooter out there. I look forward to hearing from all of you.