Hi Bill and all, Regarding a research week in Cayuga County, I'll be travelling to the area in time for a July 9th & 10th family reunion in Sterling Valley and Oswego. I'll probably be staying in an inexpensive motel in the Oswego area but I'm open to suggestion. My travel time is still flexible and I'd love to meet anyone travelling "up there" at the same time. By the way, the Town of Sterling Historian is my cousin, a few times removed, Hallie Arden DeMass Sweeting. She is a delightful lady and, sadly, she recently lost her husband of many years, Donald Sweeting. Hallie and I descend from one of the founders of Sterling Valley--Pierre Dumas and his wife, Mary Huntley Dumas (the name has been "anglicized" to Demas/Demass/DeMass). The family reunion that I will be attending is not Hallie's line; it is the descendants of John (Jack) and Lizzie Mae Stock Demass, my great-grandparents, who lived almost all of their married life in the area photographed by Bill this past Sunday! I'm not sure if anyone is interested in all or any of that information, but there it is, in case you are! Warm regards from Austin, TX, Marilyn Stern n a message dated 3/4/2005 10:02:55 AM Central Standard Time, wsh6@cornell.edu writes: Someone suggested a week where one could travel to Cayuga County and do research. Now this sounds like a great idea ! What would all of you out there want and expect when you got here? 1-Could a bunch of rooms be booked at a local motel bee reserved so you could get good rates? 2-Coupons for discount meals at certain restaurants? 3-Extended hours at the historical societies, museums and historians office? 4-Would you want County Records open on the weekend (unlikely) or could you do your research during their normal hours? 5-Cemetery tours? 6- Would you want extended hours at town and village offices? bill hecht