If you are a map person check out: Tunison's railroad, distance, and township map of New York from latest surveys. It is located at the Library of Congress American Memory web site. Go to: http://www.loc.gov Choose the "American Memory: Link Enter the American Memory section "Collection Finder" "Maps" (in box on right) In the searchbox enter the word "Tunison" This will bring you to Tunison's railroad, distance, and township map of New York from latest surveys. (1898) A small map will appear. Click on it. What you do then may vary according to your equipment. I choose 640x480 and the second dot after "Zoom In", then click on the center of Oneida County. The map will scroll if you re-click to adjust the map to the area you wish to view. The Town of Rome is in Green on this map, slightly east of Oneida Lake. When Rome incorporated as a city, it removed itself from the Town of Rome, governmentally speaking, and records there would be kept by the City of Rome rather than the Town of Rome. Most of these townships still exist today, with a few exceptions. Old Forge used to be in the Town of Wilmurt, but almost all of Wilmurt became the Town of Webb, It's the largest township in New York State. There are many wonderful maps available through this site. Spend some time browsing from the links on the page whose address I gave above. If you have enough hard drive space, a fair amount of memory, and a fast modem I recommend you download the viewer, and the maps which you like to your computer. Then you can examine them off-line at your leisure. It is a better way to view them. If you click on the "Panoramic Maps" link instead of searching for "Tunison" there are some of the panoramic maps that were once popular. I have been able to identify my great-grandfather's house in Utica on one of them, and I know there is one for Rome, too. The software to view these maps can be downloaded free, along with the maps, to your computer. It's great for offline browsing and printing of segments of maps which you like. Beware, though, you will need substantial hard drive space to save these maps. They are large files. I haven't been to the Blue Mountain Museum for quite a while, but I would bet that the logging film mentioned is an interview with Rev. Reed, who wrote a book called "Lumberjack Sky Pilot" around 1965. I believe he used to go from logging camp to logging camp ministering to the loggers. He had a movie camera, and took a lot of wonderful footage which he narrated for a Watertown, NY TV show called "Cabin Country" quite a while ago. Now days the area PBS stations bring it out for their fundraising drives 4 times a year. It is very popular. I just recorded it from the Syracuse station a week ago. A copy of the film was free with a rather large pledge. I don't know if it's for sale otherwise, but the Syracuse PBS Station, WCNY, used to have a store in Carousel Mall which would be a place I'd look to start. It is a very remarkable program. Mary H maryh@telenet.net ______________________ PS Florence: Any relation to John?