You said the history that Lillian and Millicent Rich wrote is at the NY State Library in Albany. I just wanted to let you know that they may be willing to make a copy of the book for you, and if not, there are volunteers in Albany who would probably be willing. They have an "overhead" copier, so if a book is particularly fragile, it often can still be copied. (Just post a message to the Albany boards or ask if someone on our own boards lives there and would be willing to copy it.) Six years ago we went there and discovered the library had numerous letters written by our ancestor Isaac Hardenbergh in 1813 & 1814 stored in their Special Manuscripts division. To our astonishment, the staff not only laid these letters in our hands, but then proceeded to copy all of the letters for us to take home. (I did not obey the "ssshhhh - you're in a library" rule at that moment!). A few years earlier, I called the regular circulation area, and one of the staff looked up a record in a non-circulating old book for me and gave me the information by phone. The people working at the NY State Library are just great. One more note - the NY State Library has many old microfilms of Cattaraugus county newspapers, although not as many as the Cattaraugus Museum. They lend out these films to ANY library via Interlibrary Loan, so it is simply a matter of getting the film number, and asking your local library to borrow it on your behalf for a very small fee. (Be sure your own library has a reader with a printer attached - you can only read the film in your library!) Good luck to you........ Laura Laura Greene Carlsbad, CA > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 7:27 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [NYCATTAR] LEONARD AND DANFORD RICH > > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: Rich Ballard Pepperdine Wiese Rickloff > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/RRB.2ACE/561.1.1 > > Message Board Post: > > I am a decendant of the Leonard Rich Family. > He had a son Hiram > Hiram was my Grandfather's Grandfather. > > Hiram married Mary Rich (Phillip Rich decendent)They had two girls - Inez > and Georgia. Then he married Ella Pepperdine. Ella's parents were Harriet > Rich (daughter of Calvin and Hannah Rich) and William Pepperdine. They had > twins > Raymond Jesse and Rosamond. It seems Rosamond died at birth. > > Raymond Jesse Rich married Bessie Ballard (Otto, NY) > They had 4 children, Millicent, Lillian, Raymond Hiram Rich, and Rosamond. > Millicent Rich Horth and Lillian Rich Johnson wrote a history of the > Rich/Pepperdine family. There is a copy of this document at the New York > State Library in Albany and at the DAR library in Washington DC. I have > not seen this history. Niether library allows it to circulate. So I guess > I will have to take a trip to New York to read it. > > Raymond Hiram Rich married Alberta Augusta Wiese (Otto, NY) > They had two sons > Peter Jark Rich and James Hiram Rich > Peter is my father. > > Peter Rich married Nancy Amelia Rickloff > They had 7 children > > > I am interested in the ancestory of this family. We are decendents of Arad > and Calvin and Phillip Rich > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NYCATTAR- > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the > subject and the body of the message