Thank you Linda Schmidt for all of your newspaper transcriptions. I really look forward to them and I appreciate all your time and effort. In the transcription of the November 18, 1826 edition of the People's Press of Batavia you sent to rootsweb on March 1st, there were several notices about J.P. Smith who is my ancestor. This man was James Palmer Smith(1789 Ashford, CT - 1856 buried Batavia Old Pioneer Cemetery). I have over a dozen ORIGINAL deeds that have been transcribed for land he owned in the Batavia area. I would like to know the NAME of the dry goods?? store that he owned with his brother Alva Smith. Was it on Main Street in Batavia? Are there any old photos of it? Also James P. Smith's wife was Martha Lyman Howard. She died in Bataviaa in 1881 at 89 years - I have the original telegram announcing her death. She supposedly ran a millinery shop in Batavia - located on the corner in what is now a dentist office kitty corner from the present Richmond Case Library. Is this true? and in which case, what is the exact present address of this corner dentist office? In fact this Smith and the Case family share a cemetery plot in the Old Pioneer Cemetery (I have an original lease document). I am writing a book containing the Civil War letters of Samuel Munson Smith, born in Batavia in 1834, son of James P. Smith. Thus, anyone with this Smith family, I would love to share further information. Faith Quade Munson in California