Dear Folks, I'm sending this message to both of my lists because I feel that you will all appreciate hearing about it. I'm still sorting out the last remnants of papers that I "inherited" from Cora Gushee our former Town of Porter Historian and recently I came across lovely scanned copies (in color) of two little souvenir booklets regarding the names of pupils attending two of the Town of Lewiston school districts in the early 1900s. It didn't take a rocket scientist to decide that the copies should be given to the Historical Association of Lewiston. However, there was an old little envelope I came across that I had to study very carefully. It was an original wedding invitation addressed to Mr. and Mrs. Hopkins inviting them to attend the wedding of their daughter Sarah Church to Wallace Cornell in 1869. I checked my local Cornell family records but couldn't find a Wallace. And I knew that the Church family wasn't Town of Porter either. However, over the years I had gotten to know some of the Lewiston families and I knew that the Cornell family was an important one in their history. In addition, I knew that the Hopkins family was also an important Lewiston family. And somewhere along the line the Church family sounded familiar to me as a Lewiston family. To make a long story short, I took the school records and the wedding invitation to the Lewiston's historical society's musuem this afternoon and gave them to the curator Nona. She was thrilled to pieces to receive such obscure school records in such a pretty simple form (scanned right off the original) but when I showed her the wedding invitation, she quickly dug through her Cornell family file, first found Wallace listed in the census as a 2-year-old and then up through the census records to the 1875 where it showed Wallace and Sarah having been married by then and raising a family. Regarding the school records of that sort even though they certainly aren't primary source records, they certainly add flesh to the bones of ancestors as to when and where they went to school. There's even a photograph of their school teacher. Regarding the original wedding invitation of 1869, it's only a few generations removed from a primary source. First it's an original document with names and dates of the individuals and their intent to get married on a specific date. Further census records support their marriage and the birth of their first child. And so by my digging up the two different records that have been buried in the Town of Porter Historian's files for I don't know how many years, they're now where they belong--in the Town of Lewiston records. What a pleasure to give such lovely artifacts away and have them placed where they really belong. vee