Dear Folks, One of the first messages I read today was from Matt a stranger who had found my name listed on the web as a "lookup" for Town of Porter genealogy. He said he was researching the Warren/Owen/Perry families from around here. Well I definitely know the Perry family and the Warren family definitely sounded familiar but the Owen family was a bit iffy. Nonetheless I checked my genealogy database (over 10,000 names) of Town of Porter families and by George I found the connection between all three families back into the early 1800s. I wrote right back to Matt and asked if those family names were familiar to him. Oh they DEFINITELY were! He wrote back and sent me a pedigree chart back to more ancestors than I ever knew about. If Matt's interested in what I know about the many descendants of those families, I can certainly provide him with the whole nine yards, but I can't help him in researching the Massachusetts origin of some of them. I don't do MA research, only Town of Porter. I'm certain that we'll have a number of exciting messages to exchange and if nothing else his pedigree chart will add more information on those families for my files and for future reference in case of another query. vee