Dear Folks, I've just GOTTA tell you about the email messages I received a couple of days ago. The first one was from Charlene (who, BTW, was my almost-sister-in-law some years back!) and the other from Mary who had contacted Char in the first place. Char knew that I had a lot of information on the McCollum family of the Town of Porter and asked me about Thelma McCollum. I believe that Mary might have contacted me directly because I'm listed as a volunteer lookup on the Niagara County genealogy web site. Whatever. Both of them were curious about Thelma and her FEDDER family which also included Thelma's SCHUL family around here. I knew who Thelma was and I gave them the information that I had in my files. They were really pleased and then asked pointed questions about marriage and birth dates and all of that sort of thing. Since I felt uncomfortable giving out birth dates of the Fedder children born in the 1940s, I checked the phone book to see how the present FEDDER family felt about my giving out that information. I found a Patrick Fedder in Ransomville who had the same first name of Thelma's husband. And bingo! Yes, Thelma and Patrick were his grandparents! Pat and I had a warm conversation regarding the Fedder family and after a long conversation, he sent me an attachment with all of the Fedder history that he had at hand, and told me he would try to answer any questions that Mary and Char had in their minds. I gave him my email address and he gave me his address and with his permission I passed it on to Mary and Char along with a synopsis of our phone conversation. I haven't hear back from them yet but I have the fealing that they're still jumping up and down with joy over such a real genelogy connection who is still ALIVE!!!! Can you picture the grin on my face right now?? :-) vee