Dear Folks, My day started out like any other day. I went through my usual routine and finally settled down at my computer to continue to edit my stories. At 4:00 the phone rang and I didn't have a clue who would be calling me at that time. I answered it and it was Barbara from the village clerk's office. We've known each other for some time. She told me there was a woman there who wanted to speak to me and she handed the phone over to her. The woman introduced herself as Sandy and she explained that she was Gail's sister who used to work in the Base Exchange at the Niagara Falls Air Force Base and that their mother had been nicknamed Vee. Oh how I remember Gail! Every time I went to the BX Gail and I would kid around about the name Vee. But backing up a bit into last week, Sandy had contacted me by email, explained her relationship to Gail at the BX and then told me that she had found my address on the Niagara County GenWeb list as a possible genealogy source in this area. She gave me a brief rundown on her one family line from the Town of Hartland in Niagara County and I replied to her and gave her advice as where she should go to research records regarding wills and land records. Note: she lives in Bethlehem, PA. And today there she was, showing up on my doorstep shortly after we had hung up. We immediately sat down to my kitchen table and started talking genealogy. Oh what fun that was, talking to someone who's been researching her family for the past 20 years! We talked about researching the census of 1810 to 1840 and trying to fit pieces of the family into those records. When I mentioned my researching of German church records and the marvelous family information I had dug up, she was all ears. One branch of her family was from near Stuttgart, the same as mine is. She took many mental notes. But interspersed with genealogy, we talked about the "old" days of Niagara Falls. I believe she graduated from Niagara Falls High School in 1956 whereas I graduated in 1949. We talked about the teachers we had had when we were going through school and some of the ones that I remembered and had, were the same ones she had several years later. We talked about our personal lives and I could go on and on about the different subjects we were both excited about but I'll just leave it at this. She arrived at my house shortly after 4:00, we both knew that we'd be happy to continue the conversation until the wee hours in the morning but by 6:45 I had to "kick her out!" It was waayyy after my dinner hour and her brother in Rochester was waiting for her to show up for dinner. I guess you could call it as another interesting day! vee