Hello John & Rockers, John -- It's too bad that you are in Florida and have missed the excitement of the current deluge of snow, ice coated (and now flooded) streets - in your home-town! Thank you for the cemetery information on Brackett Rd. - I think that will be an excellent mission to investigate upon the melting of snow and better weather conditions. It was good to hear from Dick Marston regarding the growing membership of our List, too! The name BRACKETT is, in a way, in my family line - although I have not had a chance to spend any time on the origin of the name as yet. Joseph BRACKETT Lang (son of William Lang who was b. in Hampton Falls in 1780, and ANNA NORRIS) is my grt grt grt grandfather, m. Betsy LIBBY in 1841. (Have an 1860s photo of Betsy) This Lang line by this time had shifted from NH to Maine. I can only speculate at this point that there might be an actual tie-in to the Brackett family considering the middle name of Joseph. But, I have nothing in my records that would indictate that at the moment. If I might back up a bit in time, and travel to Rye, NH in the late 1600s. I have often wondered about the WALLIS family who is in line with the LANG name on my mother's side. My dates are a little nebulous here. I have Stephen Lang, b. Portsmouth about 1675, m. about 1699? JANE WALLIS, dau. of William WALLIS of Rye. Then their son, Stephen LANG, b. about 1703? married ELIZABETH BANFIELD (widow of Charles Banfield), her actual family name was RICE, dau. of Thomas RICE. Well, next stop will have to be the Lane Memorial Library and another session with the history of Rye! Regards to all, Bob Jackson -- Hampton