OK, folks, I'm over it and I hope everyone else is, too. At least it woke up the Orange County list members! Please, can we drop it and get back to work? And now I'm going to ask about my "missing" great great grandmother (gulping down some pride at the same time). Name: Anna Van Inwegen Born: July 11, 1823, Orange County, NY (from death certificate) Died: April 11, 1900, Patchogue, LI, NY (from death certificate) Married: Calvin Hait, Feb. 1844 (not from Orange County) I cannot find WHERE in Orange County she is from - the death information only lists her birth as "Orange County, NY". I don't know where her marriage took place either. I have a long, flowery obit for her from a newspaper clipping from my great grandmother's scrapbook. But it contains no hardcore information other than her surviving children's names and the marriage date, but not place. She was 76 at the time of death and the obit says she had lived in Patchogue for over 50 years at the time of her death. Meaning I guess that she left Orange County before or around 1850. A narrative "family history'" written by my great grandmother in 1938 says that Anna Van Inwegen was from a Dutch family and the first one came over in the 1700's. She also says there was a Philip Van Inwegen who married a Clarissa Skinner (I can find no record of that). She says Philip and Clarissa had James or Charles, Jeptha Draylin, Mary Elizabeth and David - but she doesn't say if this Philip was the father of Anna Van Inwegen. I'm well aware that great grandma's "family history of 1938" nor the newspaper clipping can be thought of as accurate information, but at least there are some clues. Someone e mailed me that there was - and still is - a large farm in Port Jervis near or on the Neversink River that was always referred to as the "Van Inwegen Farm". So I'm wondering if Port Jervis could be "the place" - or are there Van Inwegens all over Orange County in the 1820's? Sorry... perhaps I've explained too much. My questions are: Does anyone have any information that would enable me to find out where in Orange County she was from and who her parents were? BJ Anderson, Alexandria, VA